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Power Restored to Nearly 4,000 in Lake Elsinore
An SCE spokesman said electricity went out for 3,922 customers at 1:35 p.m. Thursday when a vehicle damaged an electrical wire.
Power was knocked out to nearly 4,000 customers Thursday in Lake Elsinore when a vehicle damaged an electrical wire, a Southern California Edison spokesman said.
According to Paul Netter with SCE, the incident happened at about 1:35 p.m. on East Rockridge Road in Lake Elsinore.
"The equipment locked up to prevent further damage and power was lost until 2:32 p.m. for 3,922 customers," Netter said.
East Rockridge is off of Toft Drive, near Grand Avenue northwest of Highway 74.
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The widespread outage did not affect any school campuses, said Mark Dennis, spokesman for Lake Elsinore Unified School District.
"I have not heard a report from any our of sites and I think I would have," Dennis told Patch.
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Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Lisa McConnell did not have any information on the incident.
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