Power restored to LADWP customers after widespread outage

Power was restored to thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers after a widespread power outage Saturday afternoon.

As of 1:30 p.m., more than 100,000 customers were reportedly without power across large portions of Los Angeles. Within an hour, that number had dropped to roughly 1,500 customers. The outage was impacting customers in Mid-Wilshire, Palms and other nearby areas.

LADWP told CBS LA it was aware of the power outage, but was still working on the details.

The Los Angeles Fire Department told CBS LA it was responding to an "excessive" number of elevator calls during the power outage.

Power was completely restored to all customers by 2:40 p.m., LADWP said.