BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Peninsula outage lasts...

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Peninsula outage lasts several hours

About a mile stretch of the Balboa Peninsula was without power for

several hours on Sunday night, Newport Beach police said.

Electricity, including to traffic signals, was affected for

various lengths of time along Balboa Boulevard roughly between 30th

and 15th streets sometime after 6 p.m., a dispatcher said. The outage

included the area of the peninsula around Via Lido and Newport

Boulevard.

Sgt Dennis Birch said the power was already down when he started

his shift at 6:30 p.m. Power was still down in parts of the affected

area as of press time.

Eight or nine officers were sent out to direct traffic and put up

signs at the start of the outage, Birch said.

By 9:30 p.m., three officers were directing traffic at three

intersections, Sgt. Mike James said. There had been no accidents by

that time, James said.

A representative from Southern California Edison was not available

for comment by press time.