Power restored to 500+ SCE customers in Cathedral City

UPDATE: 5:00 a.m. Tuesday. Southern California Edison says all service has been restored.

UPDATE – 4:00 P.M. – The outage is now affecting 529 customers.

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Over 800 Southern California Edison customers are without power in Cathedral City.

The outage was reported at 1:25 p.m. The estimated time for restoration is 2:30 p.m.

It is unclear at this time what caused the outage.

Nearby where the outage is pinpointed on the SCE outage map, a fire was quickly extinguished after a transformer fell from a power pole into a backyard, according to officials from the Cathedral City Fire Department. They did not say if the fire and transformer damage had caused the outage.

The transformer fell from a pole on Monte Visa Road a block south of Ramon Road.

819 customers are currently affected by the outage. SCE crews are currently analyzing the problem.