2 electrocuted during Southern California wire theft
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SAN JACINTO — Two men trying to steal wire were electrocuted early today in an incident that also blacked out part of the city, authorities said.
Police responded at 1:20 a.m. to reports of fireworks near an electrical utility facility and found a fire burning, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
Firefighters located the bodies when the fire was put out, the department said.
"The preliminary investigation revealed the two adult males were attempting to commit a theft of wires when they were accidentally electrocuted," the statement said.
The men's names were withheld pending confirmation of their identities by the county coroner's bureau and notification of relatives.
The incident involved an above-ground metal vault structure that houses a transformer and other high-voltage equipment, said Steve Conroy, a spokesman for Southern California Edison.
About 1,600 utility customers were affected by the outage, but most got power back within a minute and the rest within an hour, Conroy said.
the loss of two of our best and brightest, at least they were bright until the fuse blew
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