More than 10,000 homes and business briefly lost power Saturday after an outage struck the Arden Arcade area, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District reported.
The outage began around 11:45 a.m. and was caused by damaged equipment, according to SMUD. A utility spokesperson said a “pole is down” and that “troubleshooters are on their way,” but offered no additional details.
As of 12:30 p.m., an estimated 10,287 customers were knocked offline, though SMUD reported electricity for some customers had been restored by 12:45 p.m…