{"id":820449,"date":"2026-07-24T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820449\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:19:09","slug":"hundreds-of-homes-businesses-without-power-in-scarborough-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820449\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of homes, businesses without power in Scarborough outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">More than 660 homes and businesses have been left without power in Scarborough as crews work to restore electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Western Power said 662 customers were without power on Friday afternoon after an unplanned outage struck the suburb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Crews were on site carrying out repairs, with power expected to be restored by about 6pm, although some customers could get electricity back sooner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The number of affected properties continued to climb throughout the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">At 8.52am, 594 customers were without power before another 73 properties lost supply at 9.01am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">By 11.30am, a further 68 customers had been affected, pushing the total to 662.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Western Power has not confirmed the cause of the outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The utility said repair crews were on site and working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Residents have been urged to monitor the <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernpower.com.au\/outages\/?outageId=INCD-2100401-U\">Western Power outage page<\/a> for updates while restoration work continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 660 homes and businesses have been left without power in Scarborough as crews work to restore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,46,45],"class_list":["post-820449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}