LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KGTV) – Power is restored in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles after an outage on one of the hottest days of the year.
The outage started Saturday evening when a power station in Northridge caught fire, according to the Associated Press.
KABCreported flames and black smoke visible from the plant. No one was injured.
At the height of the outage, 140,000 customers lost service.
#BREAKINGNEWS Power fully restored after fire at LADWP facility causes massive outage in San Fernando Valleyhttps://t.co/K4mkUbp0PE pic.twitter.com/uly3heD8hV
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 9, 2017
Crews worked through the night to repair conductors, circuit breakers and transformers damaged by the flames. Power was restored to all customers by Sunday morning.
The LA Department of Water and Power said the repairs continue.
