7,100 customers in Burien and N. Highline lose power
Wed, 09/02/2009
Seattle City Light crews restored power to most of the 7,100 customers affected by an Aug. 26 outage in Burien and unincorporated King County by midnight.
The cause of the outage remains under investigation. A power line did come down, starting a fire in a wooded utility right of way south of South 96th Street and west of Des Moines Memorial Drive.
City Light deenergized the power lines to allow firefighters to put out the blaze. Crews were dispatched to restore service once the fire was extinguished.
The general boundaries of the outage were Southwest Barton Street on the north, Southwest 167th Street on the south, Glendale Way South on the east and Puget Sound on the west.