Power restored to nearly 14K SMUD customers without power in south Sacramento
SACRAMENTO — Power has been restored to the nearly 14,000 SMUD customers who were without power in the south Sacramento area Saturday evening during what has been, so far, the hottest day of the year.
According to the utility company's online outage map, most of the affected customers were near Sacramento Executive Airport. The outage occurred at around 6:50 p.m. and was restored by 8 p.m.
The cause of the outage is unknown at this time.
Temperatures on Saturday reached record numbers across the region, including in Sacramento, during what has been the first major heat wave of the season after a relatively cool start to summer following a historically wet winter in Northern California. Here is a list of cooling centers around the city.
