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Over 3,000 PG&E customers left without power in Placerville area

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PLACERVILLE - Thousands of PG&E customers in El Dorado County are waking up in the dark Thursday morning. 

Just over 3,000 PG&E customers are without power just north of Placerville, down from 5,300 earlier in the morning. The outage began just after 3 a.m.

The company says that the cause of the outage is unknown and it expects to have power fully restored to the area around 1:30 p.m. this afternoon.

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