Electricity restored to most Petaluma PG&E customers who lost power

Power ihas been restored to a majority of the nearly 2,000 homes and businesses in Petaluma that lost electricity Thursday evening.

An outage was reported about 5:45 p.m. and affected 1,969 Pacific, Gas & Electric Co. customers, the utility reported.

By 7:45 p.m., 60 customers were still in the dark, officials said.

PG&E initally estimated power would be restored by 9:30 p.m. Shortly after 8 p.m. a cause for the outage had yet to be identified.

Petaluma police issued a Nixle alert about 6:15 p.m. advising residents that traffic signals are out at the intersections of Payran Street and Caulfield Lane, and Petaluma Boulevard South and McNear Avenue.

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