Power nearly fully restored in Long Beach after massive outage
A Southern California Edison worker peers into an underground electrical vault as crews attempt to fix an outage in Long Beach on July 31, 2015.
About 70 customers remained without power in Long Beach on Saturday morning after a fire in an underground electrical vault shut down service to 30,000 residents on Thursday.
The outage, which affected a huge swath of downtown, has now been confined to Southern California Edison customers in the immediate vicinity of the vault damaged by the fire, near 10th Street and Pine Avenue.
Edison officials expect to have power restored to all customers by Saturday afternoon.
Water, ice, flashlights and snacks are available for people without power at the Jenny Oropeza Community Center in Cesar Chavez Park, according to a city news release Saturday morning.
This was the second time in the past month that thousands of residents and businesses in downtown Long Beach were forced to endure an extended outage. An underground vault fire on July 15 knocked out power to about 5,000 customers, and it took four days for electricity to be restored.
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