Electricity restored to most Petaluma PG&E customers who lost power

The outage was reported about 5:45 p.m. Thursday. Pacific, Gas & Electric officials said most customers had power restored by 7:45 p.m.|
COLIN ATAGI
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Power ihas been restored to a majority of the nearly 2,000 homes and businesses in Petaluma that lost electricity Thursday evening.

An outage was reported about 5:45 p.m. and affected 1,969 Pacific, Gas & Electric Co. customers, the utility reported.

By 7:45 p.m., 60 customers were still in the dark, officials said.

PG&E initally estimated power would be restored by 9:30 p.m. Shortly after 8 p.m. a cause for the outage had yet to be identified.

Petaluma police issued a Nixle alert about 6:15 p.m. advising residents that traffic signals are out at the intersections of Payran Street and Caulfield Lane, and Petaluma Boulevard South and McNear Avenue.

You can reach Staff Writer Colin Atagi at colin.atagi@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @colin_atagi

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