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Board hears from PG&E, city agencies and residents after April vault fire left thousands without power
Summary
City officials, emergency managers, hospitals and hundreds of residents described slow or inconsistent outage communications and multi‑day impacts after an April 26 vault fire; PG&E said 9,454 service connections were affected and pledged to share a CPUC incident report.
City and utility officials, health care providers and hundreds of residents testified May 18 at a Government Audit and Oversight Committee hearing about an April 26 underground vault fire and the extended power outage that disrupted electricity and water for thousands in San Francisco’s Northeast quadrant.
President of the Board Aaron Peskin, who sponsored the hearing, described widespread impacts — outages that affected elevators, water pumps and refrigeration in high‑rise residential buildings — and said he expected PG&E to improve outage communications and coordination with the city. “These outages are not new,” Peskin said; the hearing focused on response times, communications and accountability.
Deputy Chief Bob Postel of the Fire…
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