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DTE Energy working to restore power in affected areas

A snow plow clears snow from around Quincy Market early in the storm.
Robbin Lubbock
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WBUR
A snow plow clears snow from around Quincy Market early in the storm.

Wednesday’s historic ice storm brought down thousands of power lines. Utility officials say they’ve been prioritizing safety for customers before proceeding with power restoration.

Trevor Lauer is the President and C-O-O of D-T-E Electric.

Lauer says crews are moving methodically, “you have to make sure first that everything is dead and there is no electricity so they can do the restoration activities in a safe manner so that we can then heat the system back up or get the electricity flowing back for all of the customers.”

34-hundred people are in the field working on getting the lights back on. With more on the way from surrounding states.

An additional 100-thousand outages happened Thursday, while crews were able to get power restored to 150-thousand customers.

Lauer says critical care facilities, and schools are among the top priorities.