By 7 a.m., the utility company had already shut power to 13,800 customers in the four counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura, with numbers expected to rise as winds pick up through the morning.
Southern California Edison began widespread power cuts to customers Wednesday morning following a National Weather Service 'Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warning,' due to strong Santa Ana winds. Two public schools in San Bernardino are without power, Paakuma' K-8 School, and Kimbark Elementary School. Both schools sent out social media messages, that they will remain open through the power cuts.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power also announced the possibility of outages, saying that planned shutoffs could be carried out and there could also be accidental cuts to electricity with strong winds taking down power lines. The PDS warning is in effect from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, the valleys of central and southeastern Ventura County and Ventura County's inland coast all the way to the beaches from Malibu to Oxnard.
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