STOCKTON, Calif. — Power was restored to more than 17,000 PG&E customers in Stockton Monday after a person climbed a transmission tower, according to PG&E.
The outage started around 4:15 a.m. and as of 7:30 a.m. 17,672 customers were without power. Power was restored before 8 a.m., according to PG&E's website.
"This morning PG&E was notified by Stockton Fire Department that a member of the public had climbed a transmission tower," PG&E wrote in a statement to ABC10. "For the safety of the individual and firefighters, PG&E de-energized the electric line at the request of Stockton Fire Department."
View an outage map HERE.
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