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PG&E Crews Restore Power After East Bay Outage

CONCORD (CBS SF) -- PG&E crews have restored power in Contra Costa County late Wednesday morning after an outage that at one point was affecting about 19,000 customers, according to utility officials.

The outage was initially reported at about 8:45 a.m. and was impacting customers in Concord, Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek, officials said.

As of shortly before 11 a.m., the size of the outage had been reduced considerably, but there were still over 1,900 customers without power.

At about 11:30 a.m., PG&E tweeted that crews were able make repairs to restore power at 11 a.m.

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