Allan Hancock College closed its Santa Maria campus on Thursday, November 20 due to a prolonged power outage.
As a result, all campus facilities and services have been shut down, and classes have been canceled for the remainder of the day.
Students, faculty, and staff were instructed to leave the campus.
According to PG&E’s online outage map, Hancock’s facility is the only customer impacted by the outage, which was reported shortly before 12:30 p.m.
The cause was listed as damaged equipment on a power pole.
Crews were reportedly on scene working to make repairs and estimated power would be restored by 4:30 p.m.
The college has announced that, unless further notice is given, the Santa Maria campus will reopen on Friday, November 21, during regular business hours, with all services and classes resuming as usual.
