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Power restored to thousands after Christmas Eve outage in Downey, Norwalk

The outage happened around 2 p.m.

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Power has been restored on Wednesday after a widespread power outage affected thousands of people on Christmas Eve.

Southern California Edison said a transformer failure Tuesday caused a major power outage in the Norwalk-Downey area.

The outage affected nearly 54,000 people in areas like Downey, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, Bellflower and Southgate, according to a spokesperson for SoCal Edison.

Edison confirmed to NBC4 that the failed transformer is located at their Edison substation in the Downey-Norwalk area.

The outage happened around 2 p.m. By 11 p.m., much of the outage was resolved.

"We know that every outage is a hardship (and) crews are working as quickly as they can to safely restore power,'' SCE spokesperson Jen Monford said.

Southern California Edison said crews are working to restore power to customers.

He said crews were able to re-route power to get most impacted customers back online relatively quickly.

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Metro C (Green) Line trains were halted between the Norwalk and Willowbrook/Rose Parks stations due to the power issue. Buses were brought in to shuttle passengers between the stations, according to the transit agency.

Customers can check their outage status here.

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