Some 3,800 Customers Hit by Goleta Power Outage

Southern California Edison says an underground cable on Hollister Avenue is to blame

By Tom Bolton, Noozhawk Executive Editor | @tombol | Published on 05.17.2012 6:59 p.m.

Nearly 3,800 customers were affected Thursday afternoon by a power outage in Goleta, according to a Southern California Edison Co. spokeswoman.

The initial outage occurred at 1:38 p.m., when an underground cable failed at Hollister Avenue and Dearborn Place, said Patricia Bartoli-Wible, local public affairs region manager for Edison.

Power had been restored to all but 478 customers as of 6:45 p.m., Bartoli-Wible said, with the remainder expected to be back online by 3 a.m. Friday.

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» Goleta Guy on 05.18.12 @ 09:19 AM

This created a very unsafe situation on Hollister Ave, as the lights at Kellogg, 217, and Ward Drive were all out. Many cars were not stopping and just flew right through the intersections. Temporary stop signs were not installed until about 9:15 pm, more than 8 hours after the power outage. What took the city so long?

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