Bolinas News: October 21 San Francisco Power Outage Was a Different Service Area

BOLINAS | BAY AREA REGIONAL UTILITY REPORT | October 22, 2026. Wednesday night’s large power outage in downtown San Francisco may have caught the attention of Bolinas readers. The event was associated with an underground vault fire in the city, not a reported loss of electricity in Bolinas.

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 Bolinas affected?

There is no verified Bolinas-specific outage linked to this incident in the source information used for this brief. Even when two communities are within regional travel distance, the distribution networks are distinct. A restoration notice about the city’s Tenderloin is not a restoration notice for Bolinas.

What local readers should know

Check Bolinas service conditions with the utility serving the property; a shared coastal forecast does not make an urban electrical incident local.

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 Bolinas 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 Bolinas.

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