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Lake Elsinore Power Outage Possibly Wind-Related
The boundaries on the outage are Senola Avenue to the north, Flint Street to the south, Penny Lane to the east, and 11th Street to the west.
A power outage that affected customers in Lake Elsinore and Perris may be wind-related, a Southern California Edison spokeswoman said Monday evening.
The outage began at 3:57 p.m. Monday and affected 727 SCE customers, said Susan Cox, a spokeswoman for the utility. By 4:37 p.m., power was restored to all but 30 customers she said.
There is no estimated restore time for those who remain without power, Cox said.
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The boundaries on the outage that impacted all 727 customers was Senola Avenue to the north, Flint Street to the south, Penny Lane to the east, and 11th Street to the west.
The cause of the outage is being investigated, Cox said.
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"It could be wind-related," she said, noting that the shutdown may have been triggered by SCE equipment located at Wallace and Vinell avenues in unicorporated area just east of the Lake Elsinore city limits.
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