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11 Separate Power Outages Plague Long Beach

Long Beach's summer of power outages continues with 11 outages affecting 17,000 customers overnight.

Southern California Edison crews were able to fully restore electricity to a section of Long Beach today where close to 17,000 customers were left in the dark.

Full restoration occurred a little before 4 a.m., said utility spokesman Robert Villegas.

The 11 separate outages all occurred at 12:59 a.m. and left 16,879 residences without power, according to the Edison outage map.

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The outages were blamed on unspecified equipment problems.

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