Thomas Fire Leads to Santa Barbara Area Outage
December 10 2017 - 8:09AM
Business Wire
The Thomas wildfire in Ventura County, California has
interrupted the transmission lines for the Santa Barbara area,
leaving more than 85,000 customers without electric power. The
Santa Barbara area transmission emergency is not affecting other
parts of SCE’s transmission system.
As soon as the area is safe for restoration, SCE crews will
assess the damage and redirect power to affected customers.
However, given the unpredictability of the fire, SCE is asking
customers currently without electricity to prepare for the
possibility of an extended power outage.
The utility is coordinating its emergency efforts with state,
county and local officials. Medical Baseline, Critical Care and
Essential Use customers have been alerted.
SCE reminds customers experiencing a service interruption in the
Santa Barbara area that they do not need to call SCE to report a
power outage. SCE will provide the latest information on the
restoration of electrical service in the Santa Barbara area on its
website and via Twitter and Facebook. Customers may also download
the SCE outages app on their smartphones.
SCE is requesting customers without power to turn off the lights
in any unoccupied rooms, except for a single lightbulb, which will
be the signal that power has been restored. Turning off appliances
helps ensure against overloading, which could delay the restoration
of service.
When service is restored, SCE is requesting residential and
commercial customers to significantly reduce power consumption in
order to provide maximum coverage to the entire Santa Barbara
area.
During this emergency, SCE reminds its customers of the
following safety tips:
- Use extreme caution when driving,
especially at intersections where traffic signals may not be
working. Approach those intersections as four-way stops.
- Do not use candles for lighting since
they pose a significant fire hazard. Use flashlights instead.
- If you see a downed line or dangling
wire — even if it appears not to be live — don’t touch or approach
it and call 911 immediately.
- Do not use outdoor cooking equipment
indoors. Such equipment can emit carbon monoxide and other toxic
gases.
- If you use a generator, place it
outdoors and do not connect it to your household circuits. That
creates “backfeed,” which is dangerous to repair crews. Instead,
plug individual appliances directly into the generator using a
heavy-duty extension cord.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California
Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a
population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer
accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central,
Coastal and Southern California.
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