Almost 10,000 Seattle City Light customers experience outages

SEATTLE — Seattle City Light reports outages for 9,973 customers in the South Seattle / Central District area on Friday afternoon just after 3 p.m.

KIRO 7 talked to a spokesperson at Seattle City Light, who said, “It’s been reported that there is a damaged pole causing this outage.”

The Seattle Department of Transportation informed drivers of the outage, telling commuters to use caution and treat dark signals as all-way stops.

Seattle City Light also posted about the outage, letting customers know that crews were responding and that the time of restoration was yet to be determined.

Seattle City Light told KIRO 7 that they’ll know more once they get more crew members on-site.

In an update around 5 p.m., SCL said, “The cause has been found to be a damaged pole, and crews have been able to restore power to 2,700 customers. They will continue to work until all customers have been restored.”

At 6:30 p.m., SCL added another update, saying, “Power has been restored to nearly all customers affected by this outage. City Light crews will continue working until everyone’s power has been restored. Thanks for your patience!”

By around 9 p.m., they said that the outage affecting customers in the Central District area had been restored. However, SCL crews continued to work into Friday night on an additional outage affecting customers in North Beacon Hill.

For the latest on these outages, visit the Seattle City Light website.

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