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Several San Francisco neighborhoods were impacted by a monolithic powerfulness outage connected Saturday that near astir a 3rd of the metropolis without electricity, according to PG&E's website.
The outage map showed The Presidio, Seacliff, Outer and Inner Richmond, Golden Gate Park, the Panhandle, Inner and Outer Sunset, and portion of West of Twin Peaks arsenic being affected. Parts of the Western Addition and Downtown were besides shown arsenic being portion of the powerfulness outage.
Just earlier 3 p.m., PG&E's website stated that astir 30% of the metropolis was without power. As of precocious Saturday afternoon, much than 130,000 customers were without service, the inferior supplier said.
According to the electrical inferior tracker PowerOutage.us, much than 125,000 customers were inactive without powerfulness as of 8:45 p.m. section clip Saturday.
The archetypal powerfulness outage started astir 9:40 a.m.
At astir 3:15 p.m., the San Francisco Fire Department said it was moving a one-alarm occurrence astatine PG&E's substation located astatine 8th and Mission streets. Fire crews said they were moving to unopen down powerfulness and extinguish the occurrence with c dioxide.
PG&E has not said what whitethorn person caused the outage.
BART said the Powell Street and the Civic Center stations were closed owed to the powerfulness outage, but person since reopened. Muni said its trains were not getting into the Muni Metro and Central Subway owed to the outage.
"If you don't request to question tonight, delight enactment disconnected the roads and enactment inside," San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said.
Lurie added that much officers volition beryllium astatine intersections and corridors to guarantee safety.
According to PG&E's website, astir 30% of the metropolis of San Francisco was without powerfulness conscionable earlier 3 p.m. connected Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.
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The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said the outage whitethorn beryllium affecting postulation lights, and drivers should dainty the intersections arsenic four-way stops.
Waymo said it temporarily suspended its services successful the metropolis owed to the outage.
PG&E said that astir 130,000 customers successful San Francisco were without power.
In an update astatine astir 8:30 p.m., PG&E said it was expecting restorations by aboriginal Saturday night.
The inferior institution said its crews stabilized the grid and did not expect immoderate much outages.
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