A shelter-in-place was issued Thursday morning after two underground vaults erupted in downtown San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded around 6:04 a.m. to the 100 to 200 block of California Street following reports of smoke coming from several street-side underground vaults.<\/p>\n
Two vaults within the affected area later experienced eruptions that were isolated to the vaults, SFFD said.<\/p>\n
A unified command has been established with the San Francisco Police Department, SFFD and PG&E. The immediate area has been evacuated and the surrounding area has been cordoned off.<\/p>\n
PG&E is shutting down additional power, which is expected to affect more locations in the area. A power outage is already associated with the incident.<\/p>\n
As a precaution, a shelter-in-place remains in effect for the 100 to 200 blocks of California and Front streets.<\/p>\n
No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Fire Department has a heavy presence at the scene. People are being asked to avoid the area and follow instructions from public safety officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shelter-in-place was issued Thursday morning after two underground vaults erupted in downtown San Francisco, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-481696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481696","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=481696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}