Thousands of United Illuminating customers along the shoreline lost power because of a breaker failure Monday morning.
According to the company's website, more than 5,000 customers lost power just before 10:30 a.m. The hardest hit areas were North Haven, with over 3,000 customers out and Hamden with over 2,000 out.
United Illuminating officials said a breaker failure at a substation caused the outage. It was quickly repaired and as of 10:50 a.m. power had been restored to most customers.
