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Video: Wind Sparks Two Fires, Knocks Out Power Lines

Two vegetation fires were caused by power lines knocked out by high winds Thursday morning. Several thousand Monrovia customers lost power.

Update, 1:19 p.m.: Southern California Edison's outage center is reporting a total of 282 customers without power.

Original: Firefighters had to extinguish two vegetation fires caused by downed power lines that were knocked out by heavy winds Thursday morning, a fire official said.

A vegetation fire on Magnolia was extinguished before 11 a.m. Thursday as another erupted in a palm tree in the 200 block of Pomona Avenue, Monrovia Fire Chief Chris Donovan said. A total of four power lines were knocked down by the strong winds.

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There have been no reports of injuries, Donovan said. Southern California Edison was on scene restoring power to the affected neighborhoods, he said.

A total of 3,542 Monrovia customers lost power as of 11:21 a.m., according to SCE's outage center.

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