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Livermore Power Outage Affecting Thousands Amid High Winds
Nearly 6,500 customers were without power in Livermore Sunday afternoon, as strong, gusty winds wreak havoc on the Bay Area power grid.
LIVERMORE, CA — Nearly 6,500 customers were without power in Livermore Sunday afternoon, as strong, gusty winds wreak havoc on the Bay Area power grid and other services.
Power was not expected to be restored until 11:20 p.m. in Livermore, according to PG&E.
A total of 61,936 PG&E customers have been affected across the Bay Area, NBC reported, with the East Bay suffering the most severe outages. A wind advisory initially issued for the North and East Bay Hills has been expanded to the entire Bay Area as well as the Santa Cruz coast, the National Weather Service said.
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In northern Alameda County, more than 5,000 customers appeared to be without power in Dublin, as well as several hundred in Pleasanton, according to PG&E maps.
Elsewhere in the county, nearly 2,400 outages were reported in in San Leandro, more than 2,200 in Berkeley, more than 4,000 in Hayward and more than 1,800 in Fremont.
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In San Mateo County, more than 3,400 customers were without power around San Mateo and Burlingame, and hundreds more in Redwood City and South San Francisco.
In Contra Costa County, more than 2,600 were without power around Pinole, and more than 1,400 in El Cerrito.
The Santa Rosa Fire Department said at 9 a.m. that more than 6,600 customers were without power and that any trees that have come down onto power lines should be reported by calling 911.
An outage in the Fairfield/Suisun City area of Solano County darkened more than 5,000 customers, while power was out to more than 2,300 in Vacaville and several hundred in Benicia. In Sonoma, more than 3,000 customers were reportedly without power. An outage in Napa affected more than 2,700 customers.
In Santa Clara County, thousands of customers in San Jose lost power, as well as more than 4,500 customers near Cupertino and nearly 1,200 in Los Gatos. Power was also out to some 500 customers in Milpitas.
Ferry service to Pier 41 in San Francisco from Alameda, Oakland and Vallejo has been suspended due to the wind conditions. Service to the Ferry Building continued as scheduled.
Patch staffer Nick Garber and Bay City News contributed to this report.