Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers around San Francisco faced more unexpected power outages over the weekend as the utility company worked to fix the damage from a fire and blackout a week earlier.<\/p>\n
About 11,000 customers in the Richmond and Presidio lost electricity for hours Sunday after a transformer caught fire 7:45 p.m. at 12th Avenue and Balboa Street, according to NBC Bay Area (opens in new tab)<\/a>. The San Francisco Fire Department sent firefighters after getting a call about a transformer that was sparking and flaming, a spokesperson said, The power was restored at 10:15 p.m., the TV station reported.<\/p>\n A separate outage around 11 a.m. Saturday saw thousands of customers in the Panhandle, Golden Gate Park and the Sunset District lose power, Mission Local (opens in new tab)<\/a> said. Power was returned to those customers Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n In a sign of progress, PG&E said it successfully connected about 6,000 customers to its grid early Monday, after a week of relying on temporary diesel generators in the Richmond following a fire at the utility\u2019s downtown substation.<\/p>\n Residents in the Richmond District complained about deafening noise from the seven 2-megawatt generators that were deployed at 24th Avenue and Balboa Street to maintain service during repairs to the substation at Eighth and Mission streets.<\/p>\n Switching back to the grid required a planned outage that began at 11:48 p.m. Sunday and lasted about 15 minutes, PG&E spokesman Matt Nauman said in emails to The Standard.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Richmond has been so patient as PG&E fully restores power to the city,\u201d District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan wrote to constituents. \u201cFor the last few days we have also had to deal with the deafening noise of generators supplementing our neighborhood\u2019s power.\u201d<\/p>\n