PG&E shuts off power to thousands of customers in the Bay Area, Northern California, due to fire risks

Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers were without power Wednesday morning following a new round of public safety outages due to strong winds and low humidity.

PG&E said it began disconnecting customers at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening as part of its planned public safety power shutoffs in areas affected by wildfires. The outages began affecting 1,339 customers in Lake and Sonoma counties and continued as of 7 p.m., with 1,019 customers losing power in Napa and Solano counties.

As of Wednesday morning, there were outages across the Bay Area and Northern California; including Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tehama and Yolo counties. View the PG&E outage map.

PG&E said there was no impact on polling places or tabulation centers other than a temporary outage at a polling place in Santa Rosa. The utility said it sent a generator to the site in response.

The Bay Area was under a red flag warning Due to the high risk of fire caused by the wind and low humidity. The warning was in effect until 7 a.m. Thursday for most of the Bay Area, much of California's northern Central Valley and higher areas of the Central Coast.

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