Power for thousands of San Francisco residents has been restored Friday night after an equipment failure in the Mission District, according to Pacific Gas and Electric’s outage map.
The power outage came has the city experienced a record-breaking heat wave on Friday.
PG&E said the outage was caused by electrical equipment failure in an underground vault at 18th and Guerrero streets.
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As of 8 p.m., power was off for just a handful of PG&E customers in the city, according to the utility’s outage map. In total, the outage affected about 11,000 customers in Cole Valley, Ashbury Heights, Mount Sutro, the Inner Sunset, Haight-Ashbury and the Castro. The outage also included the UCSF Parnassus campus.
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This article originally published at Power restored in SF after extreme heat wave.