LOS ANGELES — For the second morning in a row, crews were working today to restore power to thousands of customers in Los Angeles due to weather-related outages.

Outages peppered the Southland Wednesday when heat advisories were in force across Los Angeles County.

Thousands of Department of Water and Power customers were still in the dark today, mainly in South Los Angeles, with 8,300 customers affected, and in the San Fernando Valley, where more than 1,000 customers were affected.

DWP officials said crews were working to repair overloaded equipment in Arleta due to high demand.

Southern California Edison also reported outages this morning affecting more than 1,400 of their customers in Los Angeles County and more than 1,500 in Riverside County.