Thousands of people were left without power for hours in San Francisco on Saturday, according to the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. As of 4:20 p.m., approximately 130,00 customers were impacted by an outage, PG&E said. The utility’s outage map showed Golden Gate Park, The Presidio and Buena Vista Park were included in the outage. See PG&E’s outage map here.The outages were described as unplanned and it was unclear what caused them.As of 9:30 p.m., PG&E said that crews had restored power to about 90,000 customers. The remaining 40,000 customers were expected to have their power back overnight. PG&E said there were no injuries to coworkers or the public. But social media posts and local media reported mass closures of restaurants and shops and darkened street lights and Christmas decorations.The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said on X there were “significant transit disruptions” happening citywide and urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and treat down traffic signals as four-way stops.The city’s transportation agencies said they were bypassing some Muni bus and BART train stations because of the power outages.At least some of the blackouts were caused by a fire that broke out inside a PG&E substation at 8th and Mission streets, fire officials posted on X at about 3:15 p.m.–The Associated Press contributed to this story. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
Thousands of people were left without power for hours in San Francisco on Saturday, according to the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
As of 4:20 p.m., approximately 130,00 customers were impacted by an outage, PG&E said. The utility’s outage map showed Golden Gate Park, The Presidio and Buena Vista Park were included in the outage.
The outages were described as unplanned and it was unclear what caused them.
As of 9:30 p.m., PG&E said that crews had restored power to about 90,000 customers. The remaining 40,000 customers were expected to have their power back overnight.
PG&E said there were no injuries to coworkers or the public.
But social media posts and local media reported mass closures of restaurants and shops and darkened street lights and Christmas decorations.
The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said on X there were “significant transit disruptions” happening citywide and urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and treat down traffic signals as four-way stops.
The city’s transportation agencies said they were bypassing some Muni bus and BART train stations because of the power outages.
At least some of the blackouts were caused by a fire that broke out inside a PG&E substation at 8th and Mission streets, fire officials posted on X at about 3:15 p.m.
–The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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