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3 days after storms, 66,500 utility customers still in the dark in S. Jersey

Utility crews working around the clock have restored power to more than 140,000 customers who lost electricity in the weekend's deadly storms in South Jersey but three days later some 66,500 others are still in the dark.And officials say it might not be until Friday when everyone is back on line. Candles in the meantime are being blamed for a fire that destroyed a home without electricity in Mays Landing, Atlantic County. No injuries were reported in the 2 a.m. blaze in the one-story wood frame home on Garfield Avenue.

Val Lanzetti gives her horse Baby a drink from a water bottle at her Estell Manor, N.J., home on Monday, July 2, 2012. Lanzetti has been without power since a summer storm knocked out power on Saturday.  Utility crews in storm-ravaged southern New Jersey are working to restore electricity. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Danny Drake)
Val Lanzetti gives her horse Baby a drink from a water bottle at her Estell Manor, N.J., home on Monday, July 2, 2012. Lanzetti has been without power since a summer storm knocked out power on Saturday. Utility crews in storm-ravaged southern New Jersey are working to restore electricity. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Danny Drake)Read moreAP
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