Thousands of San Francisco customers remain without power after a substation fire. PG&E expects full restoration by 2 p.m. on Monday, with crews working to repair damage. The fire impacted several Muni lines, and BART service was restored after closures on Saturday.
Mission Local will never have a paywall.that power was expected to return fully by 2 p.m. on Monday. “If you do not have power now, you should not expect to get power until then, so plan for it,” Lurie said.
As of 4:56 p.m., 12,714 customers representing 3.1 percent of the city were still without electricity. That was down from the early afternoon, when 15,113 homes and businesses were still without electricity. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.Earlier on Sunday, about 21,000 customers were still affected.at a South of Market substation. The fire department responded to that one-alarm blaze a little after 2 p.m., and PG&E was pulling in more workers to tackle the damage. “The damage from the fire in our substation was significant and extensive and the repairs and safe restoration will be complex,” the utility wrote Sunday morning. “We have mobilized additional engineers and electricians.”Outage Update. We currently expect to restore all remaining customers impacted by the substation outage by no later than 2 p.m. on Monday. PG&E crews will continue to work until all customers have been restored.PG&E recommended customers keep freezers and refrigerators closed, turn off and unplug appliances, and keep a flashlight easily accessible. BART service was restored after Saturday’s station closures. Several Muni lines — the K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, M-Ocean, N-Judah, and J-Church — were still affected as of Sunday morning, the transit agencyacross San Francisco on Saturday after videos and images showed dozens of its driverless cars stuck at intersections, apparently confused by the lack of traffic lights, and causing massive jams. Its cars wereon Sunday he would give updates on “what resources we are going to be sending out to the Richmond District,” and that he was “pushing PG&E hard on a timeline for full restoration.” Hehimself in the neighborhood standing in a fine rain a little after noon, and urged small businesses impacted to go to a“Just look out for each other,” he said. “If you have a neighbor, if you have a friend living out there that could use a check in, please check in on them. And let’s continue to take care of ourselves, take care of each other.” The Sunset was dark and quiet on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, with pedestrians holding flashlights. Photo by Junyao Yang.Joe was born in Sweden, where half of his family received asylum after fleeing Pinochet, and then spent his early childhood in Chile; he moved to Oakland when he was eight. He attended Stanford University for political science and worked at Mission Local as a reporter after graduating. He then spent time at YIMBY Action and as a partner for the strategic communications firm The Worker Agency. He rejoined Mission Local as an editor in 2023. You can reach him on Signal @jrivanob.99.They like to point at the substation fire in the afternoon, but it is worth mentioning how blackouts started cascading in the morning. Major PG&E fail, all they know is raking it in while gaslighting the public. A couple more things to take a look at as well – widespread outage of mobile phone service. Wasn’t that supposed to be on backup power? Apparently not. And old fashioned AM/FM radio was completely out of the picture, they kept going as if nothing had happened.This is what really has me intrigued. Areas of the Inner Sunset lost power before 10AM, and then the Richmond, but the fire at the Mission St substation wasn’t ‘reported’ until after two. I suspect the two are related or causal. But also I wonder if a report will be generated let alone be made public once the investigation is complete.Please keep your comments short and civil. Do not leave multiple comments under multiple names on one article. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and easy-to-follow rules.Sign up for Mission Local's daily newsletter: The latest San Francisco news in your inbox, no more than once a day, for free.
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