SF News San Bruno Residents Allegedly Reported Leak Days Before Fire Thursday's natural gas fire, which sparked a bit before 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, originated from a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. gas line. PG&E President Chris Johns, according to
SF News WTF?! Fall Already Here? S.F. Sees Its First Rain Last Night Parts of SoMa, Laurel Heights, and the Western Addition experienced power outages last night relating to an unusual September downpour around 3 a.m. that stirred up a bunch of summer dust and
misc What's Going On Here, PG&E Truck? Spotted outside AT&T Park this week, the folks at JustMarried.us sent us this quick phone shot of a PG&E truck's not-so surprising political sentiment. Find out what it
SF News Jerry Brown Nets $400 Million for California Enron Victims Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate and Jerry Brown revealed today that $400 million in refunds are heading to California consumers who were "victimized by market manipulation and exorbitant prices during the energy crisis
SF News Big Boom on Embarcadero? We're getting reports that a PG&E transformer blew (or something like that) with some kind of explosive noise, causing a power outage at the Ferry Building and some flickering around the
SF News Thousands Lose Power On Peninsula Due to this storm thing that's happening outside, about 26,000 PG&E customers lost power between last night and this morning. Of those, the majority are on the peninsula and in
SF News Thousands of San Francisco PG&E Customers Without Power Emergency_In_SF and AlertSF report that there are an estimated 4,700 to 4,800 customers without power in Potrero and Bayview. "PG&E en route with no estimated time for
SF News East Bay Gas Pipes to Be Extra Stinky Today A batch of natural gas coming down a Pacific Northwest pipeline was mistakenly produced with too much odorant -- the stuff called mercaptan that smells like sulfur that they add to the usually
SF News The Storm: She Is Here Get out those water wings, kids! The worst of the rain is expected to fall today between, um, right now (7 a.m.) and 7 p.m. tonight, and there's a wind advisory
SF News Mylar Balloon Causes Castro Power Outage Last night in San Francisco's notoriously gay Castro neighborhood, 2,8000 were rewarded with forgiving, soft candlelight after a power outage hit the area for about an hour or so. The cause of
SF News <em>Another</em> Underground Fire on Polk Street? Video footage via SF Appeal We received an alert from the handy AlertSF.org (where were you, Emergency_In_SF?!) that there was another underground fire that occurred several hours ago in the
SF News Power Outage Hits SOMA / LORI (Update) A power outage brought the world as we know it to a halt today in the SOMA / LORI neighborhood, most egregiously affecting SFIst HQ. (Damn you to hell again, PG&E.) From
SF News Newsom Demands Answers from PG&E With the second major underground fire in four years roaring last Friday -- spectacularly so, we might add -- Mayor Gavin Newsom wants some answers from PG&E. If you recall, in
SF News UPDATE: Yes on H Lunchtime Fun in Downtown SF Tomorrow at noon, in front of of PG&E’s headquarters at 77 Beale, Yes on H activists will install three gargantuan wind turbines. Fun! The makeshift wind turbines will stand 12-feet
SF News Newsom Throws Party at DNC, Sponsors Called Into Question Current San Francisco Mayor, possible future Governor of California, and still-lost-inside-Siebel's-sugar-walls honeymooner Gavin Newsom is throwing some sort of party at the Denver Democratic National Convention. It's cloyingly called Unconventional 08, molded for
SF News PG&E Vault Explosion In Downtown SF Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California
SF News PG&E Power Plant Collapse Kills One, Injures Two in Bayview-Hunter's Point A PG&E plant in the process of being torn down collapsed and killed a worker and injured two others today. Earlier this afternoon in an abandoned Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
