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UPDATE: Hurled Bicycle Chain Caused Father's Day Blackout
Less people affected than originally calculated PG&E says.
on Tuesday, June 19 at 12:16 p.m. with new figures of affected customers, cause and location.
A bicycle chain thrown at Pacific Gas & Electric equipment caused a Father's Day power outage to 1,516 customers, according to a company spokeswoman.
That's half the number of customers originally reported to Patch on Sunday, a few hours after the outage, confirmed Monica Tell.
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"The outage had been noted twice in the system," she said.
The outage began at 4:20 p.m. and lasted 41 minutes until 4:58 p.m. when power was restored.
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The location of the incident was Old Middlefield Road and Highway 101.
This is the third power outage in two months in Mountain View, the last one .
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