Power Outage Shuts Irvine High
Irvine High School students were sent home Friday as they arrived at the campus after a power failure left the school without electricity for 11 hours.
The early morning outage affected about 2,700 customers north of Barranca Parkway and east of Culver Drive, said Tom Boyd, a Southern Calif. Edison spokesman. It occurred at 1:22 a.m., said Boyd. Most of those customers had electricity back within an hour, he said.
The school, however, got power back around 12:30 p.m., said Boyd, because a portion of an underground circuit that fed the school was turned off while utility workers fixed the overall problem.
The outage was caused by equipment failure in a vault in the area of Valley Oak Drive and Barranca Parkway, Boyd said.
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