A Comcast outage reportedly caused by a cut to a fiber-optic line near Interstate 5 interrupted service to thousands of Comcast customers in Yolo County for several hours Thursday afternoon.

At 3:31 p.m. the Comcast Twitter account tweeted that a WAVE Broadband outage in West Sacramento and Woodland is also affecting customers in Davis, but no other cities.

Comcast PIO Bryan Byrd confirmed that aWAVE Broadband cable had been cut near the intersection of I-5 and Old River Road, west of the Sacramento River, shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday.

Byrd said a PG&E subcontractor dug up the line and cut it. Byrd said there was no immediate estimate of how many customers in Davis were affected, although The Enterprise received anecdotal reports of outages from individual customers across the city.

— Reach Dave Ryan at [email protected] or 530-747-8057. Follow him on Twitter at @davewritesnews