Power outage affects San Francisco’s North Beach, Nob Hill, Chinatown, and Financial District

SAN FRANCISCO – An influence outage is affecting a big portion of San Francisco’s northeastern nook Wednesday night time. 

Pacific Fuel and Electrical’s Outage Heart map exhibits the outage affecting North Seaside, Chinatown, Nob Hill, Russian Hill and the Monetary District. The outages have been all reported within the 9 o’clock hour. The utility says on their web site they count on energy to be restored for some areas as early as 11:15 p.m. however others should wait till after midnight. 

A PG&E spokesperson mentioned simply after 9 p.m. that roughly 9,454 clients have been impacted. “Crews are on scene investigating the reason for the outage,” the spokesperson mentioned. The utility didn’t specify the place precisely the crews have been responding to. 

There are posts on social media that present smoking utility holes within the space of Clay Avenue with the odor of burning rubber emanating from them. Video exhibits parts of Clay St. being blocked off to site visitors. The hearth division is available as seen within the video. 

KTVU has reached out to the hearth division and SFPD for extra data however has not but heard again.