Power restored to nearly 6,000 people in Santa Cruz County
UPDATE 8/15/2019 4:00 p.m. PG&E reports that power has been restored to nearly 6,000 people in Santa Cruz County.
174 people are still without power in Capitola.
UPDATE 8/15/2019 2:40 p.m. There are now more than 6,000 people without power in Santa Cruz County.
The majority of outages are in the Santa Cruz area. Power is expected to be restored at around 5:15 p.m., but PG&E has not released the cause of the outages.
In Capitola, 280 people are without power, but that has been reduced from 3,000. Power is expected to be restored at around 8:22 p.m. It was caused by an equipment issue.
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PG&E has not released a cause for the outages in Santa Cruz, but estimates that power will be restored at around 5:15 p.m.
The outage in Santa Cruz started at around 9 a.m. It initially affected about 3,000 people, but that number was reduced early in the afternoon. It was estimated that power would be fully restored by 12:45 p.m., but PG&E changed that time to 8:22 p.m. The utility said an equipment issue caused that outage.
