About 5,700 customers in Reseda were without electricity Saturday due to a circuit breaker fire Saturday at a Department of Water and Power facility, but power was expected to be restored late Saturday evening.
The DWP Tweeted at 5:45 p.m., “Restoration time is 11 p.m. Work is taking longer than expected as crews continue repairs and cleanup of the site.”
Firefighters were dispatched at 2:51 a.m. to a DWP facility in the 7100 block of Darby Avenue, where they quickly put out a fire at the structure, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
DWP spokeswoman Deborah Hong said some customers had their power restored within about an hour, but there were about 5,700 customers still without electricity late Saturday morning.
Full restoration was initially expected by about 8 p.m., Hong said.