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Tree falls on power lines, knocks out power to thousands

SEATT;E — More than 5,000 Seattle City Light customers lost power Saturday afternoon after a tree fell on power lines in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood.

City Light reported that at about 3:30 p.m. the outage had affected approximately 5,242 customers from Northeast 40th Street to Green Lake Park.

After 4:30 p.m., City Light reported that all power had been restored to all but about 425 customers.

Crews did not say led to the tree falling on the power lines.

To get updates, visit City Light’s outage map here.


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