More than 5,000 affected by outage in North County; power fully restored

A power outage in the North County left nearly 5,500 customers without power on Monday morning, according to PG&E.

The outage was reported at about 10 a.m. and outage reached from Templeton to Pozo, according to PG&E’s website.

By about 11 a.m., power had been restored to most of the 5,463 customers, according to PG&E meteorologist John Lindsey, but 46 people in the area of Templeton Road were still without power.

That number dropped to 12 people in the Templeton Road area just before noon, according to PG&E’s website. As of 5 p.m., power was restored to everyone.

The outage was caused by a downed power line on Templeton Road, Lindsey said. PG&E is investigating what caused the power line to fall, according to Lindsey.

This story was originally published August 27, 2018 at 10:40 AM.