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 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 Northern California's Central Valley and higher areas of the Central Coast.

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