Power outage in downtown SLO leaves multiple businesses in the dark

More than 1,200 people were without power Thursday afternoon in downtown San Luis Obispo.

A failure in an underground vault in the sidewalk in the 600 block of Higuera Street caused the outage, according to the San Luis Obispo Police Department.

Multiple businesses were without power, Police Chief Deanna Cantrell tweeted at 2:07 p.m., and the San Luis Obispo Fire Department was dispatched to the scene.

According to the PG&E online outage map, 1,227 customers were affected.

PG&E fully restored power by 4:15 p.m.

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This story was originally published August 9, 2018 at 2:51 PM.