{"id":104009,"date":"2025-12-21T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:17:08","slug":"more-than-20000-still-without-power-after-massive-san-francisco-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104009\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 20,000 still without power after massive San Francisco blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roughly 110,000 PG&E customers have service again following a major power outage Saturday<\/a> in San Francisco that left homes in the dark, stalled traffic and shut down restaurants, shops and holiday lighting displays. <\/p>\n

PG&E said on social media that the remaining 21,000 without power are concentrated in Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, the Richmond District and small areas downtown. The company said it could not offer a precise time frame for full restoration but would continue to provide updates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe damage from the fire in our substation was significant and extensive and the repairs and safe restoration will be complex,\u201d PG&E posted Sunday morning on X. \u201cWe have mobilized additional engineers and electricians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fire broke out inside a PG&E power substation at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. It was under control by 4:24 p.m. <\/p>\n

The department has warned against using gas stoves, grills and generators indoors, saying power outages can increase the risks of carbon monoxide exposure.<\/p>\n

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and the city Department of Emergency Management on Saturday urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and take extra caution on the darkened roads. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, Lieutenant Mariano Elias with the San Francisco Fire Department said the outage had not caused a spike in accidents. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe most frequent calls we had last night due to the power outages was people stuck in elevators and fire alarms going off,\u201d he said. \u201cThose were the bulk of a lot of the calls we had. Other than that, there\u2019s nothing large going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s driverless taxis continued to operate throughout the blackout. <\/p>\n

\u201cTesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage,\u201d Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote Sunday on X. <\/p>\n

Waymo, a rival company that also offers driverless robotaxi services, suspended operations Saturday, citing safety concerns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roughly 110,000 PG&E customers have service again following a major power outage Saturday in San Francisco that left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1804,6246,56093,3802,56518,56519,56517,9403,56091,3643,101,4773,103,102,595,104,106,105,25041,1090,11931],"class_list":{"0":"post-104009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-company","9":"tag-department","10":"tag-emergency-management","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-frequent-call","13":"tag-holiday-lighting-display","14":"tag-massive-san-francisco-blackout","15":"tag-p-m-saturday","16":"tag-pge-customer","17":"tag-power-outage","18":"tag-san-francisco","19":"tag-san-francisco-fire-department","20":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","21":"tag-san-francisco-news","22":"tag-saturday","23":"tag-sf","24":"tag-sf-headlines","25":"tag-sf-news","26":"tag-sunday-morning","27":"tag-tesla","28":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104009","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=104009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}