Downtown Santa Rosa outage blamed on equipment failure

A power outage briefly left more than 3,000 PG&E customers in Santa Rosa in the dark Friday morning. Repairs were expected to last into Saturday morning.|
ANDREW GRAHAM
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Pacific Gas and Electric crews were expected to work into Saturday morning to repair equipment that caused a power failure across downtown Santa Rosa Friday morning.

The outage was traced to underground equipment failure in the area of Mendocino Avenue and Fifth Street, PG&E spokeswoman Deanna Contreras said.

It initially affected 3,256 customers beginning around 8 a.m. Friday and 48 of them were still in the dark as of 5:30 p.m.

The Saint Rose neighborhood, businesses along Mendocino Avenue downtown and some of the Santa Rosa Junior College neighborhood were all affected, according to a PG&E power outage map.

You can reach Staff Writer Andrew Graham at 707-526-8667 or andrew.graham@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @AndrewGraham88

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