Residents of Rancho Santa Barbara mobile home park say they were left scrambling after losing power without warning on one of the hottest days of the year.
The 450 residents experienced a planned outage that began at 10:30 a.m. Friday morning, according to Southern California Edison, for planned repair work to a power pole near the community.
“Because I didn’t know about this power outage, I kept saying every hour, you know, it’s going to come back on, it’s going to come back, and by 7:00 at night, I was panicked,” said resident Barbara Scott…