Power outage impacts North County residents Friday evening 

– On Friday evening, a power outage impacted nearly 3,000 PG&E customers in the city of Paso Robles. The outage started at approximately 4:41 p.m. and impacted a total of 2,950 customers, according to multiple reports.

The outage was reportedly the result of PG&E’s Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings, which are in place in areas considered to be high risk for wildfires. These types of outages occur when powerlines automatically turn off as the result of hazards, such as a tree branch, falling onto a powerline, according to KSBY’s report on the outage.

As of Saturday morning, no power outages were reported in the North County area on PG&E’s outage map.

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