Santa Ana

Power Fails: About 1,500 Southern California Edison Co. customers, most of them residential, lost their electricity Tuesday morning when a switch failed in an underground power transmission system. The blackout, centered near 4th Street and Cabrillo Parkway, lasted only about five minutes for most of the customers, as Edison switched their power supply to another line. But about 50 customers--most of them businesses in the Golden Circle area--remained without power for at least four hours, a company spokesman said.