SAN FRANCISCO: An enormous electrical energy outage hit San Francisco on Saturday (Dec 20), leaving 130,000 residents with out energy and prompting metropolis authorities to ask residents to remain residence, in keeping with the utility supplier and the mayor.
Massive components of the West Coast tech hub, which has a inhabitants of greater than 800,000 folks, had been plunged into darkness with disruptions to public transport and plenty of site visitors lights not engaged on a busy Christmas procuring weekend.
“We’re working with first responders and metropolis officers on an outage in San Francisco affecting roughly 130,000 clients,” stated Pacific Gasoline & Electrical Firm, the town’s foremost energy supplier, in an announcement on X.
A spokeswoman for the corporate stated in a video posted on social media that crews had been working to repair the issue.
“We do anticipate restorations later this night,” she stated.
Elements of the town had been blanketed in fog and plenty of companies had been pressured to shut for the day on the peak of the vacation procuring interval, the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported, leaving usually bustling industrial areas quiet.
Town’s mayor advised residents to remain off roads if potential, including some site visitors alerts had been out and authorities had despatched police and site visitors officers to handle intersections.
“However we have rain coming, it is evening time. In case you needn’t exit, keep residence and I am going to hold you posted,” mayor Daniel Lurie stated on the metropolis’s emergency operations middle in a video posted on X.
A fireplace at a substation had prompted the blackout, Lurie added, saying it was not clear when energy could be utterly restored.
