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Seattle City Light Crews Working to Restore Power for 28,000 in South Seattle

UPDATE 2:20 p.m

Seattle City Light crews are working to restore power for 28,000 customers in South Seattle.

The power outage started about 1:20 p.m. when a power line touched a separate piece of equipment at the utility’s South Substation at 3839 4th Ave. S. Crews expected to restore service to all customers within about 4 hours.

The outage stretched from Dearborn Street on the north to E Marginal Way on the south and from W Marginal Way on the west to Lake Washington on the east.

For updates, please visit our online outage map at www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat .