(CNS) – More than 950 Imperial Irrigation District customers lost power Friday in North Shore, near Mecca. The power utility advised the public at 12:37 p.m. Friday that troubleshooters were en route to fix the issue, but no estimated restoration time was given. According to IID’s online outage map, the outage occurred at 11:55 a.m. […]
Residents in North Shore have not only had to endure the challenges of a pandemic, but for a second time this year, they’ve had to deal with power outages in their homes. Now, as the outage has been declared by the county as a local emergency, residents are demanding answers, and a solution, to an […]
After days without power in North Shore, the Imperial Irrigation District reports that all power in the area has been restored. Severe thunderstorms earlier this week knocked down 37 IID utility poles, shutting off power for hundreds in the area. Although power had been restored to the majority residents in North Shore, hundreds woke up […]
No electricity. No Internet. And no air conditioning. Six hundred and sixty customers in North Shore are still without power in the middle of summer following severe thunderstorms. Thirty-seven Imperial Irrigation District utility poles went down, and with them, power lines causing damage to not only IID infrastructure, but also to access roads and nearby […]
An estimated 79 customers lost power Wednesday in Mecca. The Imperial Irrigation District reported the outage on social media at 1 p.m., stating the outage was in the area of northwest Grant Street and Avenue 68. The outage was caused by windstorms that broke down a pole in the area, officials said. POWER OUTAGE: We […]
Nearly 500 Coachella-area residents were without power Wednesday morning after a vehicle slammed into an electrical pole, knocked down power lines and destroyed a junction box, authorities said. Firefighters were called at 1:36 a.m. to Avenue 53 and Calhoun Street and found a single vacant vehicle crashed against the pole, according to Cal Fire and […]
An estimated 2,339 customers briefly lost power this morning in Indio. The outage affecting customers in the area of Avenue 48 between Jefferson and Monroe streets was reported about 3:30 a.m, according to Imperial Irrigation District spokesman Robert Schettler. The utility reported about an hour later that all affected customers had their power restored, but […]
