More than 100,000 people and businesses remain without power Thursday as wildfires continue to rage across Southern California. As of about 1:16 p.m. ET, nearly 108,000 outages had been reported, according to the USA TODAY power outage tracker.

A damaging Santa Ana wind event was peaking early Wednesday and was expected to stay strong through early afternoon.

Santa Ana winds expected early next week, meteorologists say. “We had a little bit of a decrease in wind last night, which was good news, but we are starting to see that increasing wind we’re expecting today and into tonight,

This is the third time in as many months that strong Santa Ana winds have prompted Southern California Edison to cut power to its customers over fire risk.

Kinder Morgan Inc said two of its fuel pipelines, SFPP West and CALNEV, have been shut down since Jan. 8 due to power outages in Southern California. The 515-mile SFPP West pipeline transports fuel from the Los Angeles Basin to Colton,

Recent reports suggest that hundreds of thousands of Southern California residents are experiencing power outages early morning on Thursday. Updates: KTLA.com