Power outage hits 1,100 in Palo Alto on Sunday morning - The Mercury News
Power outage hits 1,100 in Palo Alto on Sunday morning
A Sunday morning power outage is affecting 1,135 Palo Alto customers across the Meadow Park, Charleston Village and Charleston Gardens neighborhoods, according to the city’s utilities officials.
The outage was first reported at 8:19 a.m. By 9:30, utilities officials reported that they were on the scene. A few hours later, the Palo Alto Police Department said the outage had been the result of a car colliding into a pole in the 700 block of East Charleston Road.
By 1 p.m., 459 residents were still out of power. They are expected to regain electricity by 6 p.m., according to Palo Alto utilities officials.
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