MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Repair crews are working to restore power to thousands of south county customers impacted by an outage first reported on Thursday afternoon.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said the outage is impacting Middletown and parts of Cobb Mountain.

The electrical outage is not fire-related, the agency said.

Pacific Gas and Electric reported that the outage began at approximately 12:43 p.m.

It is impacting approximately 4,490 customers, PG&E said.

As of 2:30 p.m., PG&E had not reported a cause and said its crews were assessing the cause.

PG&E estimated power would be restored by 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

The sheriff’s office asked community members to not call 911 to report the electrical outage.

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