Thousands of East County residents got an unwelcome wake-up call today when the lights went out before sunrise, cutting power to more than 5,000 San Diego Gas & Electric customers from Granite Hills to east El Cajon. The California Highway Patrol issued a Sig Alert shortly before 6 AM after reports of a transformer fire near Pepper Drive and Winter Gardens Boulevard in Bostonia. SDG&E crews moved in quickly and offered a tentative restoration estimate of 8 a.m., although officials said the exact cause of the outage was still under investigation.
What officials reported
According to FOX5 San Diego, early SDG&E figures showed roughly 3,192 homes and businesses without electricity in the Granite Hills, Bostonia and east El Cajon area, with…..