Power Outages Plague Downtown San Francisco, Thousands Affected.
Hundreds of customers in San Francisco are still without power due to underground equipment damage, with restoration efforts delayed until Saturday, April 29. The outages were clustered in the city’s northeast corner, including several downtown blocks of Jackson, Washington, and Battery streets. The area includes many high-rise buildings and office towers, but PG&E could not confirm the types of buildings that lost power. The San Francisco Fire Department responded to an underground electrical vault fire at 640 Clay Street around the same time and area where the power outages were reported, but there were no injuries.