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DAYTON – The Columbia County Emergency Management Department issued a power outage alert to Dayton-area residents for Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Public information officer Dian McClurg said Columbia REA’s work on the replacement of a electrical substation may interrupt power service to Dayton residents between 11 am and 4 pm on Tuesday and very early on Thursday morning between midnight and 5 am.

“This information may be critical to people relying of life-support devices,” said McClurg, whose agency’s announcement was also designed to ward off a flood of calls to the 911 emergency respons...