LAKEPORT, Calif. – Early Tuesday morning a Pacific Gas and Electric crew was assessing the cause of a power outage that occurred near Lakeport.

The company's online outage center reported the outage took place just after 1 a.m. and impacted approximately 1,804 customers from the South Main Street area to just past Lakeside Park off of Soda Bay Road, as well as a portion of Highway 29 and Highway 175.

Kelseyville Fire personnel were dispatched to the Soda Bay Road area at 1:15 a.m. on a report of a transformer explosion, but firefighters couldn't locate any damaged power equipment, according to radio reports.

PG&E was still assessing the cause as of 2:30 a.m., with the cause unknown at that time. However, by that point, all but 184 customers had their power restored.

Power is expected to be fully restored by 4:30 a.m., PG&E reported.

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