SUNOL | BAY AREA REGIONAL UTILITY REPORT | October 22, 2026. Sunol readers may have seen Wednesday’s reporting on San Francisco’s outage and the fire response near downtown. Those reports refer to a separate urban service area, not a Sunol electrical interruption.
On Wednesday evening, October 21, an underground electrical vault fire near Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street in San Francisco accompanied a PG&E power outage that affected approximately 2,775 customers, primarily in the Tenderloin and Civic Center. San Francisco News, California58’s original local reporter for this event, documented the fire response, transportation impacts and restoration updates. The majority of the affected service was reported restored later Wednesday evening.
This is a past, location-specific incident, not a report that power remains out across the Bay Area on October 22.
Was Sunol affected?
There is no verified Sunol-specific outage linked to this incident in the source information used for this brief. The fire response and customer disruption were centered in the Tenderloin/Civic Center neighborhoods. Neither the count of affected customers nor the restoration timeline can be treated as a Sunol service report.
What local readers should know
For public events or travel, check the destination directly. An outage resolved in a distant downtown does not establish damage to Sunol’s local power lines.
Check the PG&E outage center for current status at an address where PG&E is the provider. To report an outage call 1-800-743-5002. For downed wires or an immediate hazard, remain clear and call 911.
Original local newsroom
The detailed account is in San Francisco News: October 21 Tenderloin/Civic Center Electrical Vault Fire. That local newsroom is the primary report in our network; this Sunol brief supplies geographic context for neighboring readers without asserting a separate blackout.
Editorial note: The customer number was a dated incident count, not a live Bay Area total. This is a California58 regional brief for readers near San Francisco and makes no local outage claim for Sunol.
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