Red Mountain News: Trona Power Outage Restoration Estimate Reportedly Revised to Noon

NEARBY REGIONAL REPORT — NOT A CONFIRMED RED MOUNTAIN POWER OUTAGE. Southern California Edison has described an unexpected electrical interruption in the Trona area, a nearby desert community, in a customer alert shared with Searles Valley News.

According to Searles Valley News, the original California58 local newsroom covering Trona and Searles Valley, a Southern California Edison customer alert described an unplanned outage starting at 6:43 a.m. Thursday, October 22, 2026. A subsequent customer text listed 10:00 a.m. as the estimated restoration time. That time is an estimate, not a confirmation that electricity was restored.

October 22, about 2 p.m. update: One Trona-area resident reports that their electricity was still off at 2 p.m., after the earlier 10 a.m. and noon estimates. No updated utility-wide restoration time is confirmed. This does not establish a power outage in Red Mountain. Follow the original Searles Valley News article.

What this means for Red Mountain

For Red Mountain readers, this notice provides a way to follow a developing issue across the desert without incorrectly suggesting that Red Mountain customers lost service.

If traffic lights are inoperative during any local outage, treat intersections as four-way stops. That is general safety advice, not a report of a failed signal in Red Mountain.

Where to find updates

Follow the original Searles Valley News report for corrections and the latest independently available information. The original article also links to SCE’s official outage status service. The cause, full geographic area, and customer count were not established by the private notification.

Editorial transparency: This regional brief is based on the dated SCE customer notifications supplied to Searles Valley News. No separate Red Mountain outage is confirmed. California58 does not reproduce the private subscriber address or imply this event affected every community within 50 miles.

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