OnsceneALERT
Oct 13, 20211 min
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Nearly 20,000 Sacramento Municipal Utility District customers lost power Tuesday in a South Sacramento neighborhood.
SMUD’s outage map showed over 19,300 of its customers near Interstate 5 and the Pocket neighborhood lost power around 12:05 p.m. By 12:30 p.m., nearly 8,000 customers were still without power.
The utility estimates power should be restored by 1:10 p.m.
The National Weather Service expected wind gusts of 25 to 30 mph in Sacramento through Tuesday afternoon. SMUD has not said what caused the outage, but the National Weather Service warned Sacramento residents of wind gusts of 25 to 30 mph through Tuesday afternoon.
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Incident Number
2-211012-4502
Alert Type
Critical Incident Notification
Incident Type
Power Grid Failure
Incident Occurred
October 12, 2021
Alert Posted
October 13, 2021
Last Updated
October 13, 2021
Incident Location
Sacramento, CA
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