More than 14,000 customers around the Baltimore metropolitan area were left without power Friday afternoon, according to Baltimore Gas and Electric. At 2:30 p.m., BGE reported that about 12,500 customers in southwest Baltimore and another 1,500 in Baltimore County were without power.

A BGE spokesman said an overhead line that feeds a Catonsville-area substation went down. Some customers were taken offline as the company worked to restore power. At least 12 schools in the area closed early due to the outages.

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