BATON ROUGE - As of 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, a power outage has impacted the Bluebonnet-Siegen area.

As a result of the outage, several traffic lights have been knocked out and traffic on Airline Highway is backed up in both directions.

The following traffic lights are not working:

-Bluebonnet Boulevard at Jefferson Highway
-Airline Highway at Bluebonnet

TRAFFIC ALERT- Power outage has knocked out several traffic lights on Airline and Bluebonnet south of I-12. Backups are heavy!

— Ashley Fruge' (@ashleywbrz) December 7, 2021

According to Entergy's outage map, just over 1,400 people are in the 70809 zip code have been affected by the outage.

WBRZ spoke with Entergy and a representative said the outage has been traced back to a problem at a substation.

Entergy confirmed that crews are currently on-site at the substation, working to reroute power back to customers through field switching.

More information is expected as Entergy continues to address the issue.

Check back here for updates.