SF News PG&E Power Outage Affects 2,500 San Francisco Customer Accounts, Thousands More in the East Bay On Sunday, thousands of residents around the Bay Area — mostly those in the East Bay, but a sizeable amount in San Francisco, as well — experienced an unplanned PG&E power outage that's been tied to this weekend’s light rain (and neglected power lines).
SF News Sunday Links: Red Flag Warning Issued for Parts of Bay Area and NorCal That SpaceX mission ended safely Saturday night, the SFUSD opened four vaccination units for eligible school-age children, and the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning for parts of the Bay Area.
SF News This Weekend's Rain Is Still Good News for Firefighters... But Will Mostly Miss Bay Area Some early season rain is still expected to come down in Northern California tonight and into early tomorrow — which will help fire crews contain wildfires. However, don't expect much precipitation here in the Bay Area.
SF News Saturday Links: Two of Newsom's Kids Test Positive for COVID-19 Nine Oakland police officers were put on unpaid suspension for posting “racist and sexist” content on social media, Mayor Breed unapologetically defended her maskless Black Cat outing, and the California governor's office announced that two of Newsom’s four children tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires Have Entered Four Giant Sequoia Groves A “coyote awareness education" program has begun in Moraga, Flower Piano is underway at Golden Gate Park this weekend (and into early next week), and it's official: at least four giant sequoia groves — home to some of the largest trees on this planet — have started burning.
SF News Salesforce to Help Employees Flee Texas Amid Abortion Ban Texas, a state that's becoming increasingly purple, recently enacted one of the most aggressive anti-abortion laws seen in the United States since Roe v. Wade. But Salesforce employees who work in the Lone Star State will have their employer's help in relocating, should they wish.
SF News Someone Started a Brush Fire in Santa Rosa. A Group of Good People Stopped It From Getting Worse. Over a million acres have already burned in Northern California this wildfire season — a figure that meant nothing to one Bay Area arsonist on Saturday. Thankfully, several good samaritans stopped that figure from growing any more than it needed to.
SF News Sunday Links: Unkown Explosion in San Francisco Causes Shelter-in-Place Order A Saturday explosion in Oceanview led to some residents having to shelter in place, you can thank a collection of low-lying clouds for today’s sunrise in the Bay Area looking particularly gorgeous, and no: Apple isn't moving its Silicon Valley headquarters to Texas.
SF News Yep... San Francisco's Cable Cars Are Still Out of Service Because of an "electrical issue" earlier in the week, San Francisco's iconic cable cars are currently corralled inside SFMTA's "Barn" — with still no operational date in sight.
SF News Dixie and Caldor Fires Each Reach 60% Containment Saturday morning, a milestone in fighting two of Northern California's most pressing wildfires — the Dixie Fire and Caldor Fire — was achieved: successfully containing at least 60% of each blaze.
SF News Saturday Links: The Bay Area Remembers 9/11 on Its 20th Anniversary A woman spotted a mountain lion on the UC Santa Cruz campus, this local nonprofit is helping displaced people from the homeless camp on Apple-owned land find shelter, and on this day 20 years ago: Two Boeing 767 planes struck the Twin Towers — killing 2,996 people.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose to Soon Mandate Vaccines for City Workers San Jose is expected to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for City employees, Apple continues its tug-of-war with neighbors of a homeless encampment in San Jose, and the CDC has new data showing that unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who've been vaccinated.
SF News Sunday Links: How Berkeley Defines a Shadow Could Upend Future Housing Plans Karla the Fog was particularly thick this morning, California firefighters continue making headway containing wildfires, and Berkeley’s mission to explicitly define shadows could mitigate future housing plans.
SF News Caldor Fire Jumps to 37% Containment; Fire Evacuees Hopeful They Can Return Home Soon Due to a mix of improved weather conditions and successful suppression strategies performed by firefighters, the Caldor Fire is now at least 37% contained after burning some 214,107 acres — giving new hope for evacuees that they can return to their houses soon.
SF News Saturday Links: Wildfire Smoke Continues to Haze Air Around San Francisco "Moderate" air quality levels still hang above the San Francisco sky, a one-alarm warehouse fire broke out in Potrero Hill early Saturday morning, and Yolanda López, who painted the Virgen de Guadalupe series, has passed away at 79.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland’s First City-Permitted Weed Festival to Take Place Over the Long Weekend Market Daze is set to become Oakland’s first city-permitted cannabis festival over the long weekend, CA cyclists could soon have the option to treat stop signs at times as yield signs, and Santa Clara County will open in-person voting stations this weekend for the gubernatorial recall election.
SF News Day Around the Bay: There's a Possibility That the Caldor and Tamarack Fires Could Join Together Fairyland in Oakland turned 71 years old today, Situ at SFMOMA has permanently closed, and as firefighters continue battling the Caldor Fire, one new containment measure is being considered: to merge it with the Tamarack Fire.
SF News Spare the Air Alert Extended Through Sunday; Regional Air Quality Advisory to Go Into Effect Monday With wildfire smoke still filling the Bay Area skies, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) has extended the Spare the Air Alert through today, which was originally set to expire Saturday.
SF News Sunday Links: South Lake Tahoe Looks Lifeless Amid Evacuation Warning Hurricane Ida has made landfall off the coast of Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, a deadly car crash Friday killed one Livermore high schooler and left another five injured, and pictures arrive of a desolate South Lake Tahoe following a new evacuation warning.
SF News It's Officially the Hottest Day in San Francisco So Far This Year This afternoon, it reached 84 degrees Fahrenheit in San Francisco — making Saturday the city’s single-hottest day recorded this year, thus far.
SF News 48-Year-Old Man Killed in San Francisco Shooting Has Been Identified On August 17, a fortysomething man was attacked and shot near the 800 block of Larkin Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Over a week later, the body has been officially identified as one Theodore Tolliver.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Air Showing 'Unhealthy' Levels of Pollutants There's an ongoing donation drive for Afghan refugees in the East Bay, Contra Costa County employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 4 (or face possible termination), and the air around the Bay Area continues hazing with dangerous levels of wildfire smoke pollutants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: This San Francisco Group Helped Vaccinate 1,500 People Against COVID-19 A small team at SF's I.T. Bookman Community Center helped 1,500 individuals get to vaccine appointments, Dog Eared Books in the Castro will soon reopen as a different bookshop called Fabulosa Books, and there’s a brand-new campground on the SF Bay you can pitch a tent at now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Could Soon Pass Statewide Vaccine Requirement for Gyms and Other Venues Outside Lands announced its food and drink partners today, at least 13 American soldiers died during Thursday’s attack outside the Kabul airport, and California could soon require anyone who wants to enter inside certain public areas to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dixie Fire Nears 50% Containment One person was hospitalized after a police shooting in Oakland, August is now Transgender History Month in San Francisco, and headway was made containing the Dixie Fire — California's largest single-source wildfire in history — with at least 45% of it now under control.
