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About 8,000 PGE customers lose power in SW Portland, Tigard

KPTV · last updated

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) — Thousands of people in southwest Portland and Tigard are without power due to an outage reported on Wednesday afternoon amid ongoing heatwave.

According to the Portland General Electric website, just before 1:30 p.m., about 2,900 customers had lost power in the southwest Portland Goose Hollow neighborhood.

As of 2:30 p.m., PGE said they have sent a crew to the area to figure out what happened, make sure everyone is safe and make repairs. Currently, the website estimates they will restore power around 5:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, just after 2:30 p.m., an outage in the are of Washington Square Mall in Tigard was reported. According to PGE, more than 5,000 people are impacted by this outage.

PGE has a crew working to determined the cause and make repairs in Tigard as well.

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