Roughly 2,000 people in Central Malibu lost power on Wednesday morning around 11. The outage affected Southern California Edison customers in the Malibu Canyon/Civic Center area.
Malibu Nixle Alerts sent out a text at 11:37 a.m. stating, “Central Malibu currently experiencing a power cut. Power is expected to be out until 12:30pm according to preliminary reports from SCE.” Power came back on at various locations in central Malibu at about 11:55a.m. and was restored at Pepperdine around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
It is not yet known if that outage is related to the outage on Malibu Canyon Road that occurred after a car struck a transmission pole north of Malibu Crest Road on Tuesday around 4 p.m. The crash caused 151 customers to lose power, according to Edison. Their power was fully restored Wednesday at 10 a.m.