By Miriam Raftery

October 28 2019 (San Diego’s East County) – With the strongest Santa Ana winds of the season forecast Tuesday through Thursday,  San Diego Gas & Electric is warning over 32,000 customers that the utility may proactively shut off power to many communities to prevent lines from sparking fires, including some areas not previously impacted by outages.  The outages could begin late Tuesday or early Wednesday and last as late as Friday evening, according to SDG&E.

The communities that may lose power are:

• Alpine
• Boulevard
• Campo
• Descanso
• Dulzura
• El Cajon (portions of)
• Encinitas (portions of)
• Escondido (portions of)
• Jacumba
• Jamul (portions of)
• Julian
• Lakeside (portions of)
• Mount Laguna
• Pala
• Palomar Mountain
• Pauma Valley
• Pine Valley
• Potrero
• Poway
• Ramona
• Ranchita
• Rancho Santa Fe (portions of)
• San Clemente (portions of)
• San Juan Capistrano (portions of)
• Santa Ysabel
• Valley Center (portions of)
• Warner Springs

Steps to prepare for an outage