MORE ON BAKERSFIELD POWER OUTAGE

Police say it was two separate collisions on 2nd Street that caused the lights to go out in east Bakersfield and downtown on Wednesday. One car overturned near South Union Avenue around 1:30pm and a second car trying to avoid the wreck hit a power pole. That caused live wires to fall and arc as a police officer was helping a woman in the first car who was having trouble breathing. A woman who ran from the scene was arrested on warrants.

Suzanne Grant