NOTE: For more on the cause of this outage, click here.

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UPDATE: Says PG&E Spokesperson Deanna Contreras:

PG&E crews are working safely and as quickly as possible to restore power to the approximately 3,773 electric customers in Eureka who are currently without power due to a vehicle hitting a power pole.  The outage started around 1pm today.

The estimated time power will be returned to all customers is 4:30 this afternoon but many customers may have power before then.  And you may notice on the outage map that as crews continue to asses the situation, that time may change.

Updates from PG&E

1:31 p.m.

Started	Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 @ 1:20 p.m.
Customers affected	3,773
Cause	PG&E is investigating the cause of your outage.
PG&E status	PG&E is assessing the cause at the outage location.
Estimated time of restoral	Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 @ 4:30 p.m.

1:46 p.m.

Cause

Our preliminary determination is that your outage was caused by a car that hit a pole.

1:54 p.m.

Customers affected

3,421

2:06 p.m.

Customers affected

1,849

2:16 p.m.

Customers affected

67

2:30 p.m.

PG&E status	PG&E is sending a repair crew to the outage location.
Estimated time of restoral	Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 @ 11:30 p.m.

3:52 p.m.

PG&E status	PG&E repair crew is on-site working to restore power.
Estimated time of restoral	Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 @ 2 a.m.

1:33 a.m.

Estimated time of restoral

Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 @ 8 a.m.

2:52 a.m.

PG&E status

Power restored.