Power Restored for 12,000 in Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Cypress

Roughly 12,000 Southern California Edison customers from Los Alamitos and surrounding areas were without power for nearly three hours Friday night

From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., power was out in parts of Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Cypress, Cerritos and Long Beach The outage affected residents, businesses and traffic lights at intersections such as Katella Avenue and Los Alamitos Boulevard.

Residents reported a lack of electricity in the Apartment Row neighborhood of Los Alamitos, the Shops at Rossmoor and the Cypress Red Robin and Costco.

Simultaneously, power outages affected wide swaths of the region on a day when inland valley temperatures reached 100 degrees. Other areas affected include Stanton, Orange and parts of Riverside County/

While the cause of the Los Al, Seal Beach and Cypress outages are "not known at this time," the Edison cited "extreme heat" as the cause for the Orange outage and "equipment problems" caused the Long Beach outage.

The outage affected street lights on and around Katella Avenue, Seal Beach Boulevard and Los Alamitos Boulevard.

Seal Beach resident Michelle Monpalvo said she and her husband had just left Sprouts Market and noticed the signal lights along Seal Beach Boulevard were dark. 

While traveling Los Alamitos Boulevard, turning right on Katella Avenue and entering Cypress, they saw at least five dark signals. 

Monpalvo said the power outage is making traffic worse on the popular thoroughfare.

“It’s packed,” Monpalvo said. “There’s tons and tons of cars and people don’t’ know what to do because they didn’t’ realize the lights were out.”

Monpalvo said they also saw some customers outside the Cypress Red Robin that had been told they could use debit and credit cards because of the power outage. 

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