Power has been restored to all but a dozen of customers in the East County on Thursday night after an outage that affected nearly 3,000 customers.
The outage occurred just before 9:30 p.m. and affecting the communities of Lake Murray, Mission Gorge, Sycamore Canyon, Santee and Carlton Hills, according to SDG&E outage map.
Power was restored, save for 15 customers, just before 10:30 p.m.
The utility is still looking into what caused 2,936 customers to lose power. All power is expected to be restored around midnight.
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