Nearly half of Placer County was without power Saturday morning due to an unplanned outage, according to PG&E.

The outage area continues to expand, stretching from Granite Bay, Newcastle, Loomis, and Auburn across Folsom Lake to Cool, and north through Colfax into Lake of the Pines.

Thousands of PG&E customers were affected by power outages Saturday morning in Placer and El Dorado counties, particularly near Granite Bay.

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