10/18/18 UPDATE – The power outage in South Lake Tahoe Wednesday night was caused by line failure at the corner of Dunlap and Eloise. The cause is unknown at this time but a spokesperson for Liberty Utilities said it may have been wind induced.
Almost 8,000 customers were without power with 3,000 of them having power restored within 30-40 minutes. The staggered re-energization brought most of the remaining customers back in two hours with the final two up at 5:00 a.m.
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There is a widespread power outage in South Lake Tahoe this evening. At about 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, power went out to over 2,000 customers and at this time the cause is unknown.
Liberty Utilities has crews dispatched to find the problem and fix it.
This is a developing story and will be updated once more is known.