Power goes out in part of Old Town Clovis; repairs expected to stretch late into night

Nearly 30 customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in Old Town Clovis were expected to be without power into late Friday night.

About 8:45 p.m., the power went out in an area around Fifth Street and Clovis Avenue, PG&E’s Karly Hernandez said.

Only minutes earlier, Clovis Fire had been called to the area. That report, at 8:39 p.m., stated a transformer at Fifth and Pollasky Avenue was smoking.

Firefighters wrapped up their work 40 minutes later. PG&E workers were still investigating what went wrong with their equipment, though Hernandez said it was traced to a transformer.

Restoration was expected about 11:30 p.m., according to the PGE.com outage map.

This story was originally published August 18, 2017 at 11:07 PM with the headline "Power goes out in part of Old Town Clovis; repairs expected to stretch late into night."