Thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers were without power Tuesday morning, according to electricity-outage maps. Nearly 8,000 San Francisco customers were without electricity as of 7:56 a.m., according to the Chronicle’s outage map. The outages appeared to be concentrated in San Francisco’s Presidio, in the northern portion of the city. About 400 Sausalito customers were also without power Monday evening into Tuesday, the map showed. It was not immediately clear what caused the...
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More than 8,000 PG&E customers were in the dark in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, according to the website PowerOutage.us. PG&E's outage map indicated that the households without power were centered in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. The estimated time for restoration in this neighborhood is 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. PG&E's website said the cause of the outage is under investigation. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment. — Infamous kidnap hoaxer Sherri Papini is back...
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Where the hell is Peter Plate? And who the hell is he? His editor, Dan Simon, calls him a “proletarian novelist,” but that doesn’t seem right. The author of ten novels, all of them set in the Mission District in San Francisco and all of them published by Seven Stories Press in New York, Plate More
The public radio music station purchased San Francisco’s KREV for $3.75 million in an October bankruptcy auction.
Walk just a few blocks in New York City and you’ll likely spot an electric bike zipping by. The vehicles have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially among delivery drivers, tens of thousands of whom weave through New York streets. But the e-bike influx has caused a wave of fires sparked by their batteries,…
ST. GEORGE — A Washington City family faced many pet owner’s worst nightmare after a Sunday morning fire. After receiving the call shortly before 10:30 a.m., firefighters were on the scene at 925 S. 1775 E. within about four minutes. It took approximately three minutes to control the fire and stop it from spreading, Washington […]
A fire at a home reportedly belonging to actress Cara Delevingne in Studio City early Friday morning resulted in two injuries, including one to a firefighter, the Los Angeles Fire Department confir