Scattered power outages reported Tuesday

Thousands of people are without power, as PG&E investigates an outage in North Salinas and Prunedale.

According to the utility’s website, the outage hit at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday and initiallly affected 3,694 customers in the North Salinas, Bolsa Knolls, and Prunedale areas. By 7:52 a.m., 1,110 customers remained without power.

The cause is under investigation and there is no estimated time for full restoration of power.

Crews are also on the scene of a second outage caused by a downed power line.

PG&E reports 400 customers in the Zayante and Lompico areas of Santa Cruz County are without power. It expects to have power restored by noon today.

Check back for further updates throughout the day.