Seattle Light restores power to Green Lake; fire to blame for failure affecting nearly 5,000 customers

Seattle City Light crews say a vault fire was responsible for a power outage that affected nearly 5,000 customers in the Green Lake area Sunday morning.

Power was restored to most customers by noon, well before the 4 p.m. estimated restoration time the utility initially projected.

Calls first started coming in around  9:30 a.m. In all, City Light crews were responding to a total of eight separate incidents totalling about 4,800 customers without power Sunday morning.

The company’s Twitter site was inundated with queries from phones and battery-powered laptops.