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Southern California Edison Calls for Conservation as Utility Battles Wildfires,
Works to Restore Service
INLAND EMPIRE, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Edison
officials called on customers to conserve power Monday as the utility coped with
the many wildfires in the region. The wildfires disabled some transmission
lines over the weekend.
Approximately 35,000 of the customers without power Monday were in San
Bernardino and Ventura counties. Approximately 5,000 customers in Forest Falls
and Idyllwild were without power because SCE imposed protective power outages in
bark beetle-infested areas on Sunday. SCE imposed the protective outages
because the high winds and the unprecedented presence of thousands of dead or
dying trees threatening the power supply to its customers.
Officials said Monday that SCE expected to begin the process of re-energizing
the circuits supplying Forest Falls and Idyllwild later Monday when the winds
were expected to subside. Officials said the circuits would first have to be
inspected before being re-energized, a process that could take 24 hours or
longer.
SCE estimates the fires damaged or downed approximately 550 power poles over the
weekend. SCE has approximately 82 crews in the field in the affected areas.
Also on Monday, SCE issued a request for aid from neighboring utilities.
"For those customers who have lost their homes in the fires or who have had to
evacuate and now face great uncertainty, we extend our deepest sympathy," said
Larry Grant, SCE vice president for power delivery. "To our customers who have
remained or are returning to your homes and businesses, we ask for your
continued patience. We will work to get power back on quickly for you as soon
as conditions make it possible for Edison crews to enter affected areas."
To better cope with any scheduled or unscheduled power outage, SCE advises
customers to:
* Check on the medical needs of family and neighbors.
* Use flashlights. Don't use candles, which can start fires.
* Keep battery-powered radio with fresh batteries to stay informed.
* Maintain at least three-quarters of a tank of gasoline in your
vehicle(s). Gas station pumps do not operate during power outages.
* Have alternate, back-up arrangements in place to keep perishable food
chilled and fresh in the event of prolonged outages. Keep refrigerator
and freezer doors closed as much as possible during an outage. A
well-filled, unopened freezer will keep food frozen for hours without
electricity.
* Never connect a portable generator directly to a power line. State law
requires that customers inform us when a generator is being used at a
home or business. Call us at 1-800-655-4555.
* Never touch a power line suspended in the air or lying on the ground.
For further information, customers may call SCE at 1-800-655-4555 or visit the
utility's Web site at http://www.sce.com/barkbeetle .
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is one of
the nation's largest electric utilities, serving a population of more than 12
million via 4.5 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area
within central, coastal and Southern California.
DATASOURCE: Southern California Edison
CONTACT: Corporate Communications of Southern California Edison,
+1-626-302-2255
Web site: http://www.edisonnews.com/
http://www.sce.com/barkbeetle