SMUD Power Outage Leaves Thousands Without Power In Downtown Sacramento Monday Afternoon
An unexpected power outage left more than 5,200 SMUD customers without power Monday afternoon.
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An unexpected power outage left more than 5,200 SMUD customers without power Monday afternoon.
A power outage doesn't have to cost you the food in your refrigerator or freezer. Here's how long after you lose power before food spoils.
Nine schools in the Yuba City Unified School District also went dark with the power outage Monday morning.
A large outage has thousands of PG&E customers in Sutter and Yuba counties without power Monday morning.
Each time more than 2,000 PG&E customers have been left in the dark.
More than 10,000 SMUD customers were without power after a crash took out a power pole Monday morning.
A problem with an underground cable is being blamed for a power outage in the Pocket/Greenhaven neighborhood of Sacramento on Monday morning.
Class has been canceled at an Arden Arcade school after a car crash caused a power outage late Sunday night.
More than 26,000 SMUD customers are without power in Orangevale and Folsom in an unplanned outage Tuesday morning.
Thousands of SMUD customers are in the dark Tuesday evening due to unplanned power outages.
For those customers who do not have a generator or backup power source, the food in their fridge will spoil after just four hours.
PG&E announced Tuesday evening that crews will turn off power for approximately 46,800 customers in parts of Butte, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and Yuba counties.
PG&E is now saying that the North Bay and most Sierra Foothills customers won't see public safety power shutoffs on Monday.
According to the PG&E website, approximately 1,864 customers were affected by the outage that started just before 5 p.m.
More than 5,000 SMUD customers were without power for over an hour in the Wilton/Herald area Wednesday night.
On the ground and up in the trees, power crews worked through rain and snow to turn the lights back on for hundreds.
A car that crashed into a power pole Citrus Heights is the reason thousands of people in North Highlands are without power Wednesday morning.
The Sacramento Regional Fire/EMS Communications Center, the agency responsible for dispatching all fire crews and ambulances in Sacramento County was dispatching in the dark on Sunday night.
High fire danger in northern California has prompted PG&E to notify about 70,000 customers about possible outages. In a statement Thursday, it says it may proactively turn off power in order to avoid the threat of wildfires from sparking power lines.
Customers have complained about oxygen tanks shutting down, generators selling out, and food spoiling. PG&E says it doesn't plan to reimburse customers for their losses.
An early morning car crash has knocked out power to more than 1000 residents in Acampo on Wednesday.
The blackout comes as more than 400,000 power customers remain in the dark more than five months after Hurricane Maria.
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that Derrick Jones of Catonsville, Maryland, was arrested in Utah on a charge of soliciting sexual contact with a teenage girl in Virginia through social media.
Cal Fire says no one except fire and PG&E crews are allowed on Highway 26, because conditions are unsafe.
Officials are investigating what caused Terminal B at Sacramento International Airport to lose power early Thursday afternoon.
