ON Wednesday afternoon about 830 homes and businesses were without power after weather damaged network infrastructure in the Perth metro area with Beechboro, Kiara and Lockridge along with Balga, Seville Grove, Morley and Stirling the areas most affected.

On Wednesday out of the 62 outages listed one affected 2545 customers in Bullsbrook, Melaleuca, Chittering, Lower Chittering, Walyunga National Park, Upper Swan and Avon Valley National Park.

But according to Western Power their outage was not related to pole damage and was short-lived with the power outage, which started about 10.23am being resolved by 12.28pm.

Western Power said crews were working as quickly and safely as possible to rectify the outages resulting from pole damage due to the light, drizzly weather causing pole top fires affecting 40,000 homes at the peak.

A Western Power spokeswoman said due to the volume of incidents and complex repair work required in some areas, some customers had been without power for an extended period.

“Estimated restoration times are on the Western Power website and we’re contacting affected customers via SMS,’’ she said.

“Western Power considers a range of factors when prioritising restoration work to minimise the impact on the community including locations with essential services, health facilities and aged care.

“We expect power will be restored to the majority of customers today.’’

Customers who have experienced an outage for longer than 12 consecutive hours can apply for an extended outage payment via extended outages payment once power is reconnected.