With high winds raking parts of Los Angeles County and a brush fire burning in the Malibu area, public safety power shut-offs were affecting swaths of Southern California Edison’s service area.
About 35,000 SCE customers had their service preemptively cut in Los Angeles County with almost 70,000 more under consideration of a shut-off as of Friday morning. Most of the shutoffs have been in the Malibu area and adjoining unincorporated zones, where the Bryson Fire scorched about 150 acres and was less than 20% contained Friday morning.
In the Los Angeles Department of Water Power’s service area, two outages were reported, one in the Granada Hills area that was affecting about 900 customers and another in the Sylmar area, where around 300 LADWP customers were without electricity…