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Throughout Monday morning, thousands of CPS Energy customers were without power due to the effects of wind and rain. At one point, an outage on the city’s Southwest Side affected nearly 1,000 customers.

Within a one-mile radius of the 300 block of Vincent St near Loop 410 South and Highway 16, 995 CPS Energy customers first reported an outage just after 5:00 Monday morning.

“I call and they say that they can’t do nothing, that (it is) something about the weather,” Clara Zepeda said.

Zepeda and her husband have lived on Vincent St for more than 40 years. After hours of waiting for electricity to be restored, they tried to keep cool on their porch.

“(There has) been worse weather and this never happens,” Zepeda said. “I mean, when something happens, they fix it in one, two hours, you know?”

According to Zepeda and her neighbors, the biggest concern was groceries spoiling.

“I have four freezers and (the food is) going to go to waste,” Zepeda said. “I mean, it’s already (been) seven hours, and I was checking on one and it’s already like defrosting.”

Power was finally restored to that neighborhood right before 1:00 PM. According to an email from CPS Energy, the outage was due to a down power line. “Before finding the power line down, we had to troubleshoot the circuit and restore as many customers as we could,” a representative with CPS said.

Although thankful the power was finally restored, Zepeda and her neighbors fear going through the same thing Monday evening if severe storms strike.

A father accidentally backed his car into his 2-year-old daughter on Monday, killing her, according to San Antonio police.

Officers were called out to the 4100 block IH 10 East, on the city’s East Side around 1 p.m., according to Sgt. Tom Alonzo.

Alonzo said the father thought his daughter was already inside the apartment before he backed his Suburban SUV into the garage. The girl left the apartment, however, and ran into the car’s path.

The girl was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where she died. She has not yet been identified.

“The family is very grief-stricken,” Alonzo said. “It’s just a terrible tragedy and accident.”

The case remained under investigation on Monday.

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Hold the pancakes. Walmart’s Great Value Buttermilk Pancake and Waffle Mix is recalled because some boxes may contain bits of cable, the FDA announced.

Other product recalls include DigitDots, which are high-powered magnet balls, millions of bottles of Airborne supplements, and certain bottles of Jergens lotion.

Continental Mills is recalling certain boxes of the pancake and waffle mix after cable fragments were found in some boxes, the FDA announced. For more information, click here.

The best buy date on the affected boxes is Sept. 1, 2023. Consumers are urged to either throw recalled mixes out or return them to the store for a refund. No illnesses or injuries have been reported.

HD Premier has also recalled more than 116,000 of its DigitDots, high-powered, rare-earth magnet ball sets.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has warned of these types of products in the past. If a child were to swallow more than one tiny magnet ball, the magnets can attract in the digestive tract. That can lead to a perforated intestine, a twisted or blocked intestine, blood poisoning and death.

The company knows of four children who had to have their magnets surgically removed. Consumers are urged to contact the company to return the magnets for a refund.

For more information, click here for the recall notice.

Some 3.7 million bottles of Airborne gummies have been recalled because the caps can fly off with force when they are opened for the first time. It’s caused by built-up pressure in the bottle. Eighteen minor injuries have been reported. One person required medical care for an eye injury, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The immune system supplements were sold from May 2020 through February 2022.

Consumers can return unopened recalled bottles to the store. Opened bottles do not need to be returned.

For the list of affected Airborne products, click here.

Certain bottles of Jergens Ultra Healing moisturizing lotion are recalled because they could contain a bacterium that can cause infection in immunocompromised people, the FDA announced.

The recalled bottles are either three-ounce or 10-ounce sizes with a lot code that begins with ZU.

No illnesses have been reported. The company says the recall is precautionary and urges people not to use it.

Click here for more information on that recall.

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The Bexar County Appraisal District is investigating a ransomware attack over the weekend that affected part of the district’s systems.

The ransomware attack happened at 10 a.m. Sunday, and it was detected soon thereafter, according to the appraisal district.

The property records database was not encrypted from the attack, and some systems were partially affected and damaged. Those files are currently being restored.

“At this time, we are still in recovery mode and full assessments are ongoing,” authorities said in a release. “We are working to restore functionality as fast as possible; however, it may take a couple of days to restore full functionality.”

People can still use the district’s website and online portal, which authorities said are unaffected.

The FBI was notified of the ransomware attack.

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San Antonio firefighters were extremely busy on Monday morning, dealing with weather-related electrical fires.

Nearly 30 electrical fires were reported between 4:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. on the San Antonio Fire Department’s website and all of them were the tops of electrical poles catching fire — some causing downed power lines or transformers blowing.

As a result, CPS Energy saw as many as 14,000 customers without power at some point on Monday.

“We’ve been in a little bit of a dry spell, then we had the wind come in and the dust accumulated over several months and then you get that little bit of moisture; you see a lot of arching wires and as a result, you get a lot of these electrical poles that catch fire,” Lt. Edward Olmo, SAFD explained.

Olmo said that the cause was the right combination of drought, light rain, wind, dust and old poles.

“The older the poles, the more brittle, the easier they can catch fire,” Olmo said. “Sometimes it will affect the transformer. You’ll hear and see that big loud boom and a bright flash of light.”

Olmo said that if you see one of the poles broken and/or on fire, don’t go near it and immediately call 911, especially if there are downed lines.

“Let us come out and check it out first,” Olmo said. “Let’s be safe, please stay back. Those power lines could fall at any time. If that happens, just give us a call. We’ll come right out we promise, it’s been a little busy this morning, but we’ll make it out there.”

CPS Energy sent KSAT 12 a statement on the power outages around 11 a.m.

“We have our crews out working quickly and safely to restore outages. We have cut them almost in half in just the past hour and we will continue restoration efforts until all of our customers are restored.”

After a long period of dry weather, light rain/humidity mixed with dirt/dust buildup on insulators can cause electricity to ‘track’ over. This can lead to a pole fire, which our crews have seen as shown below.

📸: Bandera Rd. near 410/Boerne Stage Rd. & Sage Creek

(2/2) pic.twitter.com/oH02Fd8ycP

— CPS Energy (@cpsenergy) March 21, 2022

CPS Energy also sent a link to a video that explains the cause of the electrical pole fires. It can be seen by clicking here.

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New photos released by Crime Stoppers could hold the clues that help San Antonio police track down the person who shot a man and toddler back in January.

The photos released Monday morning show a car that police believe may be linked to the incident.

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They describe it as a Volkswagen with a driver’s side door that is a different color from the rest of the car.

Police call it a “vehicle of interest” in connection with the January 19 shooting in the 200 block of Moraima Street.

They said then that the 22-year-old man and 3-year-old boy were both inside a home when someone fired shots into it after 9 p.m.

The shooter was gone before police arrived.

Officers at the scene described the victims’ wounds as being critical.

A knock on the door of that home Monday went unanswered, so there is no update on them now.

Police ask anyone who has information on the shootings or may recognize the car in the photos to call Crime Stoppers at (210) 224-STOP (7867).