Outage Hits 1,100 Edison Customers

WESTMINSTER — An electrical outage left about 1,100 customers in the dark Saturday evening, including the Westminster Police Department.

Southern California Edison workers were repairing a downed power line near Richardson Way and 24th Street and a transformer problem at Hoover Street and Westminster Boulevard on Saturday night, utility spokesman Ray Golden said. They also were trying to determine what caused those problems, and which one--if not both--led to the widespread outage at 5:21 p.m., he said.

The police station and most of the affected residents were back on line before 6 p.m., Golden said. Power to the remaining 385 was expected to be restored by midnight Saturday, he said.