SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO : Residents Plagued by Power Failures
A four-day series of power failures affecting more than 4,000 area households continued early Tuesday with a six-hour outage caused by faulty cables in one of the city’s main electrical circuits, a power company spokesman said.
An outage from 2:30 to 8:30 a.m. Tuesday was not related to strong winds that hit the county and blew down overhead power lines Tuesday afternoon in San Juan Capistrano, said Fred Vaughn, spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
The morning incident was caused by ongoing cable failures that also triggered outages Sunday and Monday, Vaughn said.
On Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2,400 customers in south and central San Juan Capistrano lost power because of a combination of a cable failure and a bird flying into a power line. An electrical short in the same circuit at 7:30 p.m. Sunday left some homes without power until 11 a.m. Monday, Vaughn said.
A Saturday power failure from 8:30 to 11 a.m., affecting 1,800 homes in east San Juan Capistrano, was caused by a bird tangled in a wire, Vaughn said.
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