Power restored after early morning outage in North Charleston

UPDATE: Officials with Dominion Energy say power was restored in the area around 7:00 a.m.

The outage was caused by a material failure as one span of wire was temporarily down, said officials. Gust winds also likely contributed to the issue.

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Crews are working to restore power to more than 400 people in the North Charleston area.

According to the Dominion Energy outage map, there are nearly 412 outages as of 5:54 a.m. near Matilda Dunston Elementary School in a North Charleston neighborhood just off of Remount Rd.

We are unaware of what caused the outage, but officials are working to restore it within the area.

Restoration time is expected to be around 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.