Electricity has been fully restored Sunday to the West Los Angeles area, where at one point this weekend about 9,500 customer accounts had been left in the heat and the dark.
Complete restoration was accomplished at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, said Department of Water and Power spokeswoman Carol Tucker.
The area had been plagued by intermittent outages due to a major cable damaged by extreme heat and high demand. The Sawtelle District was particularly hard hit.
The original outage at 8:10 p.m. Friday left about 9,900 customers in West Los Angeles without electricity and power was restored to all but about 260 customers at 1:40 p.m. Saturday by re-routing circuits at the affected substation, Tucker said.
Those feeder circuits were overloaded by the increased power demand and thousands lost power again, she said.
“The electrical equipment in the station was still overheating and additional repairs were needed,” Tucker said.
Other outages Saturday were reported by Southern California Edison on its Web site, including 1,676 customers in Los Angeles County that were without power in areas including Inglewood, Long Beach, Lynwood, Baldwin Park and Lawndale.
SCE also reported 80 customers in Orange County were without power.
— City News Service