UPDATE: Around 2,000 customers in Oakland remain without power, PG&E says. Latest here:
The power outages caused a frustrating ripple effect across Oakland, wiping out power for homes and businesses, impacting traffic, and halting some travel in and out of the airport.Power has been restored to thousands of customers in Oakland Monday after a fire at a PGThe video in the player above is from a previous report.At the height of the outages Sunday, 50,000 customers lost power.
The outages stretched all the way from the Oakland Hills to the Alameda border, including the Oakland Airport. The city of Alameda was also affected by the outage, even though they have their own municipal power company. They use PGTwo of the city's four bridges got stuck in the up position at the same time, making them impassable and jamming up traffic.
Alameda's mayor says the city is asking the county to drill into what happened and ascertain when and how backup generators were deployed. They are looking at the outage as a fire drill so the bridges aren't out of commission the next time there's an emergency. Social media video shows TSA halting check-ins after the power went out as airport officials temporarily shut down services."They boarded half the flight, and we were the last ones on so they were like yeah we'll just not put you on the airplane right now, so we waited in portland a little longer and got over here and they got the power running and everything," Bently Anderson said.They say crews have to examine the damaged transformer to figure out how the fire started.
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