NEWS INFORMATION

POWER OuTAGe CAUSED BY CABLE FAILURE

ALAMEDA, Calif., July 3, 2007 — The failure of electrical distribution cable in the vicinity of Heritage Housing shortly before noon on Tuesday, July 3 affected Alameda Power & Telecom electric service to approximately 250 Bay Farm Island customers.

The first report of the outage was 11:55 a.m. Power was restored to all customers by 1:16 p.m. A full investigation of the incident is pending.

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