Power restored to over 4K in South Seattle

SEATTLE — Almost 5,000 Seattle City Light (SCL) customers were without power Thursday morning.

According to SCL, crews responded to an outage in the Beacon Hill/Mount Baker area affecting approximately 4,813 customers at around 5:30 a.m. Thursday.

As of 6:30 a.m., power was restored to half of those customers. Just 2,073 remained without power.

By 9 a.m., crews had restored power to all but 647 customers.

“We will continue to work until power is restored for everyone. The cause of this outage was a combination of tree/vegetation and equipment failure,” posted SCL.

Follow along on SCL’s outage map for updates.