Martinez Outage Caused By Crash: PG&E

Martinez CA

30 April, 2021

5:22 PM

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MARTINEZ, CA — Pacific Gas and Electric Company provided details about a widespread outage last week that left some Martinez customers without power for more than five hours. The outage started around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, when a car struck a power pole in the 5100 block of Alhambra Valley Road, PG&E Spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian said. "The accident caused an outage, affecting 1,618 customers at the peak," Sarkissian said. PG&E crews restored power to 1,500 customers by 6 p.m. and worked as safely and as quickly as possible into the night to restore power to the remaining 100 customers by 10:15 p.m., Sarkissian told Patch. By 2:30 a.m. Thursday, April 22, all related repairs and restorations were complete, Sarkissian said.