About 2-hundred Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers in the Los Feliz area were without power Wednesday after a reported transformer malfunction.

Customers began tweeting questions to the LADWP about 1 a.m., authorities said.

The outage is affecting more than 2-thousand customers, according to the DWP website, adding crews are working to restore power around 5 a.m.

Customers noted on Twitter that they heard an explosion, and cited an LADWP source as saying a transformer was at the heart of the outage.

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