Heavy Rain Causes Power Outages Throughout Bay Area
A couple thousand Pacific Gas and Electric customers are without power across the Bay Area Tuesday morning.
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A couple thousand Pacific Gas and Electric customers are without power across the Bay Area Tuesday morning.
Power has been restored to nearly 2,000 customers following two separate power outages in Cupertino Saturday morning caused by a squirrel.
At least 3,600 Marina Bay residents were without power Sunday afternoon after an impaired driver crashed his car into a PG&E utility box, according to Richmond police.
A mylar balloon that got caught on a power line and caused a wire to go down resulted in a power outage in San Francisco's Portola neighborhood Wednesday, a utility spokeswoman said.
Part of a main thoroughfare in Concord was closed Monday morning after a truck crashed into a power pole knocking out power to hundreds, authorities said.
The O.co Coliseum in Oakland briefly lost power when it was struck by lightning early Tuesday morning, Oakland A's and PG&E officials said.
Power has been restored to all but 30 PG&E customers Thursday morning after an outage affected more than 1,400 customers initially.
Power has been restored to all but a couple dozen PG&E customers after an equipment problem affected nearly 6,000 customers in El Cerrito Tuesday morning, according to utility officials.
Power is back for all PG&E customers in San Francisco's Sunset District after many were initially affected following a pole fire this morning. Thousands of customers in Mountain View and Santa Rosa are still without power.
High temperatures led to an equipment failure and downed power line that sparked two small grass fires and an outage affecting some 2,400 PG&E customers near the Walnut Creek-Lafayette border on Sunday night
There are 157 PG&E customers in San Francisco's Ingleside Heights neighborhood that remain without power after a utility pole caught fire and collapsed this morning.
Police are investigating a fatal, high-speed crash that caused a power outage in Richmond on Tuesday night.
Lightning struck a tree and a home in Sausalito during Monday's afternoon thunderstorm, blowing out the homes windows, though no one was injured.
Power has been restored to all 1,200 PG&E customers in San Jose after a squirrel caused an outage that knocked out power to residents and businesses and caused major system-wide Caltrain delays, utility officials confirmed.
PG&E has restored power to all customers who lost electricity when a car crashed into a utility pole adjacent to U.S. Highway 101 in San Rafael Wednesday morning, causing a large outage and snarling the morning commute.
A large power outage that affected about 24,000 PG&E customers in Marin County Wednesday morning was caused by a squirrel, a utility spokesman said.
Overslept? Blame the utility for the alarm clock being off. More than 11,500 PG&E customers are without power this morning in Walnut Creek and Lafayette, utility officials said.
Crews have controlled a small electrical vault fire in San Francisco's Mission District that left more than 100 PG&E customers without power Saturday.
A San Rafael elementary school was closed Friday morning after a minivan plowed into the school Thursday evening, causing a gas leak and injuring occupants of the vehicle, according to the San Rafael fire chief and school officials.
A minivan plowed into the side of a San Rafael elementary school Thursday evening, causing a gas leak and potentially shutting down the school Friday, according to the San Rafael fire chief.
Nearly 2,300 homes and businesses in Benicia were without Friday morning after an underground cable failed, PG&E said.
A downed power line was blamed for causing a power in Mountain View that affected nearly 1,500 customers earlier Sunday.
Classes have been canceled at Silver Creek High School in San Jose Wednesday because of a power outage, the school announced on its website.
Sunnyoaks Ave. and one southbound lane on Winchester Blvd. remained closed to traffic and PG&E said the closures could be in effect until Monday morning.
Power was restored to most of the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday as officials confirmed that the theft of copper cables from a substation caused a campus-wide outage that preceded an explosion and evacuation.
