About 2100 Without Power in Northern Mendocino

With today’s wind and rain, power has gone out to a number of Mendocino customers of PG&E. According to Deanna Contreras, spokesperson for the company,

PG&E has activated its Operations Emergency Center (OEC) to respond to outages from today’s wind and rain safely and as quickly as possible.  Right now there are approximately 2100 customers without power in Mendocino County but crews have restored power to many more already today. Those customers are mostly located in:

Branscome – 144 customers currently impacted

Cummings – 37

Dos Rios – 11

Laytonville – 1321

Leggett – 351

Westport – 19

Willits – 158

There is one outage impacting most of those customers and it started at 9:30 am and originally impacted about 3,000 customers, in which many now have power.  Crews are investigating and looking for the cause of the outage.  Right now the estimated restoral time (time when power is expected to be turned back on) is 1:30 this afternoon but as crews determine the actual cause, that time may change.

You can sign up for text alerts for the latest information at www.pge.com/outages.

And as always, if you see any downed power lines or low-hanging lines or equipment, assume they are energized, stay away and call 911.  If it’s safe to do so, call PG&E at 1-800-PGE-5000.