1,800+ Coachella Residents Without Power After Car Crash

INDIO, CA — An outage cut power to more than 1,800 Imperial Irrigation District customers in the Coachella and Thermal area Thursday for about two hours after a vehicle came in contact with the district's infrastructure.

The utility alerted the public shortly after 6:30 a.m. Thursday that a power outage was affecting areas in Coachella and Thermal and that troubleshooters were responding to the scene.

"The outage, affecting approximately 1,900 customers, started at 6:18 a.m. due a heavy equipment vehicle making contact with district infrastructure," IID officials wrote in a statement shortly after 10 a.m.

It was not immediately known where exactly contact was made.

Power was restored to all customers by 8:20 a.m., IID officials said. Anyone who continued to have issues was asked to call the utility at 800-303- 7756.

The IID provides electricity to more than 150,000 customers in parts of Riverside and San Diego counties, and to all of Imperial County.