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Power Outage Cripples San Francisco for Hours

Kate Davis, from left, Alex Rodriguez, Molly Gasch and Marissa Osowsky work on steps across from their office at ‎BBDO San Francisco during a power outage in
San Francisco, Friday, April 21, 2017. Pacific Gas & Electric posted online just after 5 p.m. that power had been restored to all the 90,000 customers who lost it in the
Financial District and other areas of the city.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
JANIE HAR a utility company spokes- fore a planned repair. Lee said. the city of 850,000 people
Associated Press man said. The Fire Department tweet- “The best news of all was were generally courteous
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Pacific Gas & Electric ed that it had responded no injuries were associat- to each another.
San Francisco power out- posted online just after 5 to more than 100 calls for ed with this incident,” Fire The city’s iconic cable
age that stranded people p.m. that power had been service, including 20 stuck Chief Joanne Hayes-White cars were taken out of ser-
in elevators and left tens of restored to all the 90,000 elevators with people in- said. vice as a precaution since
thousands of others in the customers who lost it in the side. At hospitals, surgeries No traffic collisions were re- streetlights were not oper-
dark Friday was caused by Financial District and other were disrupted briefly but ported, either, and officials ating on large parts of their
the massive failure of a cir- areas of the city. Spokes- no problems were report- thanked motorists for driv- routes.
cuit breaker that sparked a man Barry Anderson said ed because backup gen- ing so cautiously during the Continued on Page 4
fire at a power substation, the equipment failed be- erators kicked in, Mayor Ed blackout. In fact, people in

Pence Aims to Reassure Australia After Tense Trump Call

KEN THOMAS Australia, Vice President colm Turnbull on Saturday U.S.-Australia alliance and chael Auslin of the Ameri-
Associated Press Mike Pence will be working as part of his 10-day, four- laying out the new admin- can Enterprise Institute, an
SYDNEY (AP) — More than to smooth over any linger- country trip to Asia. His istration’s priorities for the analyst on Asian security
two months after President ing hard feelings. agenda includes reassur- Pacific Rim. “Partly, you issues.
Donald Trump got into a Pence will meet with Aus- ing Turnbull about the state could call it a diplomatic Continued on Page 2
spat with the leader of tralian Prime Minister Mal- of the unusually strained clean-up mission,” said Mi-