Vandalism Blamed For South Bay Power Outage; 3,000 Homes Affected

Los Gatos CA

24 May, 2021

2:17 PM

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SANTA CLARA, CA —More than 3,000 Santa Clara residents lost power for several hours on Sunday afternoon after a vandalism attempt to steal a cable, according to Silicon Valley Power. The outage was reported shortly after 4 p.m. and affected 3,631 customers in the the northeast area of the city. Power was restored just before 7 p.m. In a tweet, Silicon Valley Power said the outage was caused by a "vandalism attempt at one of our transformers to steal the cable." The company said that copper wires are in the electric cable. No suspect has been identified. To steal the copper wire.— Silicon Valley Power (@SantaClaraPower) May 24, 2021