UPDATE: Power restored in Coachella after nearly 2-hour, 900+ customer outage
UPDATE; Power has been restored shortly before 4 p.m.
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Nearly 1,000 Imperial Irrigation District customers Lost power in Coachella this afternoon, just as a blistering heat wave struck the region and sent the mercury soaring well into the triple digits.
The outage affecting 972 customers occurred just after 2 p.m. in an area northwest of Ninth Street, east of Frederick Street and west of Highway 111, according to IID spokesman Robert Schettler.
Crews were en route to the scene, but Schettler said about 2:30 p.m. that the cause of the outage had not yet been determined, nor was an estimated restoration time available.
According to the National Weather Service, which issued an excessive heat warning for the Coachella Valley for this week, it was 116 degrees in the city by mid-afternoon. The heat warning is in effect until Thursday evening, warning of temperatures possibly as high as 120 during that time period.
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