GAINESVILLE - Thousands of Jackson EMC customers in the northern part of Hall County found themselves without power early Saturday morning as crews replaced a transmission line in the area.<br />
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Hall County Dispatch confirmed the outage at 5:30 a.m. after receiving a number of 911 calls.<br />
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At that time, more than 11,000 were without power, according to a Jackson EMC outage map. By 6 a.m., the number of customers without electricity had dropped to just more than 5,700. Power was restored to all customers by 6:30 a.m.<br />
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