A major power outage hit San Francisco, leaving 130,000 PG&E customers or roughly 30% of the city blanketed in darkness on a rainy Saturday amid the busy holiday season. <\/p>\n
The outage started in the morning, but a fire that broke out inside a PG&E power substation around 2:15 p.m. in the Mission district played a role in the blackouts, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. The fire was under control by 4:24 p.m. and the cause of the blaze is still unknown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m comfortable saying it\u2019s a contributing factor to the power outages, but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the entire reason as to why,\u201d said SFFD Lt. Mariano Elias.<\/p>\n
PG&E couldn\u2019t immediately be reached. The utility hasn\u2019t said publicly what caused the massive outage.<\/p>\n
The outage disrupted public transportation including BART trains. BART said on social media site X just after 3 p.m. that the stations at Powell Street and Civic Center were closed because of the outage<\/a> and that trains in San Francisco were experiencing a 10-minute delay.<\/p>\n The Muni and Central Subway systems were not running<\/a>.<\/p>\n The large outage comes as more rainy weather is expected to hit San Francisco and then move toward Los Angeles<\/a> ahead of the holidays. <\/p>\n PG&E posted on X it\u2019s working with city responders and officials on the issue. Power could be restored later today, PG&E posted on X.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have stabilized the grid and are not expecting additional customer outages at this time,\u201d the utility said<\/a>. <\/p>\n San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie<\/a> said in a video posted on social media that city officials are working with PG&E to restore power. \u201cWhat I\u2019m asking everybody to do is to be safe out in the roads. A lot of lights are out. We are going to continue to keep you posted,\u201d Lurie said in the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management posted a map showing the outage heavily impacted the west side of the city. The affected areas include Richmond, Sunset, Presidio and Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n The agency said on X people in the city should avoid nonessential travel; only call 911 for life threatening emergencies rather than reporting power outages; turn off major appliances to prevent surges in electricity; keep fridges and freezers closed and treat traffic signals that go dark as four-way stops. The department also cautioned people from using gas stoves, grills and generators indoors because power outages can increase the risks of carbon monoxide exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major power outage hit San Francisco, leaving 130,000 PG&E customers or roughly 30% of the city blanketed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[56095,1409,15511,56093,3802,2985,15322,63,56092,224,56091,101,103,102,56090,104,106,105,18069,21699,56094],"class_list":["post-103295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bart-train","tag-city","tag-electricity","tag-emergency-management","tag-fire","tag-golden-gate-park","tag-holiday-season","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-major-power-outage","tag-p-m","tag-pge-customer","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-outage","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sunset","tag-utility","tag-x-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}