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NEW ORLEANS -- As Entergy New Orleans works to restore power to Orleans, a substation outage is affecting nearly 11,000 customers in New Orleans.
The outage is affecting areas in the Central Business District, Mid-City and Uptown.
Before the substation failure, Entergy New Orleans was reporting the number only 5,000 without power in Orleans Parish.
There were reports of a fire at the substation causing heavy outages in the downtown area.