Hundreds of homes in foothills are without power
PG&E is reporting that hundreds of customers in an unincorporated area of Placer County northeast of Newcastle are currently without power.
More than 350 PG&E customers near Gold Hill lost power Saturday morning just before 10 a.m., according to the California utility company’s outage website.
A preliminary determination suggests that the outage was caused by an equipment problem, and a repair crew is currently on scene working to restore power, PG&E said.
Power is estimated to be restored to the area by 2 p.m. Saturday.
A previous version of this story incorrectly gave El Dorado County as the location of the outage.
This story was originally published January 5, 2019 at 12:30 PM with the headline "Hundreds of homes in foothills are without power."