EQUIPMENT FAILURE CUTS AREA POWER.Byline: Daily NewsNEWHALL - About 300 Santa Clarita-area residents lost electrical power Tuesday after a piece of underground equipment failed and sparked a small fire, officials from Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. said. Sheriff's deputies responded shortly after 2 p.m. to a report of a manhole-like cover partially blown from its position at the intersection of Lyons Avenue and Wiley Canyon Road, authorities said. ``It was a relatively small incident that originally affected about 300 people,'' said Gil Alexander, an Edison spokesman. ``We were able to restore power to about 50 (residences) within seconds.'' Alexander said he could not yet estimate when full power would be restored. The area affected by the outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. ranged from Costa Brava Costa Brava (kō`stä brä`vä), a strip of coastline, Girona prov., NE Spain, in Catalonia, near the French border on the Mediterranean. to Lyons Avenue and Chestnut chestnut, name for any species of the genus Castanea, deciduous trees of the family Fagaceae (beech or oak family) widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. They are characterized by thin-shelled, sweet, edible nuts borne in a bristly bur. Street. |
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