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The outage began at 12:04 p.m., said Susan Simon, a spokesperson for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Initially, 13,000 customers in Lakeport and Kelseyville were affected, said Simon.
The power outage appeared to reach as far as Cobb, where a resident reported to Lake County News that the power also was out at his home Friday afternoon.
Within about an hour, according to Simon, all but 3,000 customers had their power restored.
By 5:30 p.m., there still remained 1,300 customers without power, said Simon, with the last part of the outage centered around Kelseyville.
Somewhere between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. the last of the customers had the power go back on in their homes, Simon said.
The cause, said Simon, was a squirrel.
“A squirrel came in contact with a piece of equipment and as a result of that we lost power to three separate substations,” said Simon.
Simon did not have specifics on where it was precisely that the fatal meeting between squirrel and power equipment took place.
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Jesse Raymond Heilig, 25, was arrested on two felony warrants for violations of probation on Thursday morning, according to a report from Lt. Kurt Smallcomb of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
A Mendocino County Sheriff's sergeant – assigned to the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team (also known as SAFE) – arrested Heilig at an East Stanley Street address, Smallcomb reported.
Heilig was transported to the county jail, said Smallcomb, where bail was set at a no-bail status.
Heilig is a registered sex offender, and is listed on the Megan's Law Web site because of his conviction for rape of a drugged victim.
The SAFE Program is funded by a grant and allows local sheriff's offices to spend more time investigating sex offenders that may be out of compliance with the 290 PC (sexual offenders registration law) requirements, Smallcomb reported.
Lake County also participates in the SAFE Program, as Lake County News has reported.
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