LA Times · Jul 17, 2015
Long Beach power outage continues as thousands remain without electricity
Some 3,000 people remained without power early Friday because of an ongoing outage in Long Beach, officials said.Thousands of Southern California Edison customers remained in the dark early Friday as the company struggled to restore power after an underground fire sent manhole covers flying nearly two days ago.
Nearly 6,000 SCE customers have experienced short- or long-term outages since the vault fire Wednesday afternoon sparked several underground explosions that sent the manhole covers into the air.
Since then, crews restored power to most customers only to see additional work knock some of that power out again.