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Widespread power outages hit the Sacramento area Saturday morning, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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As of 9:30 a.m., about 40,000 PG&E customers were without power in Placer County and more than 3,600 were affected in El Dorado County, according to the PG&E online outage website.
More than 5,000 customers were impacted near Granite Bay, according to PG&E’s outage map, which, as of 9 a.m., said power is expected to be restored in the morning hours. Auburn is also heavily affected with the same anticipated timeline.
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The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said drivers should treat intersections with nonfunctional traffic signals as a four-way stop. The agency also said it’s responding to an increased number of calls because of power-loss triggers.
“Please be patient with one another and allow extra travel time as crews work to address the outage,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote in a statement on social media.
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