[BerkeleyDailyPlanet] It was a squirrel in El Cerrito!

[Updates from the Berkeley Daily Planet]

>From Bay City News:

Jun 8, 2015 - BCN84:REGIONAL: THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER IN
SOUTH BAY AND EAST BAY
	
	
	   BCN84               -WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGE
	
	   By Bay City News Service
	   Thousands of PG&E customers are without electrical service tonight
due to multiple outages primarily affecting the South Bay and East Bay,
according to a PG&E spokesman.
	   Roughly 45,000 customers lost power around 8:03 p.m. in the cities
of Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Kensington, Oakland, Richmond and San Pablo,
according to PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi.
	   "Looks like it was caused by a squirrel at a substation in El
Cerrito," Guidi said.
	   Service has been restored to roughly 5,000 customers in the East
Bay, but at this time there is no estimate for when the rest of the system
will be restored, according to Guidi.
	   Earlier this evening around 5:30 p.m. roughly 12,000 customers in
San Jose and Gilroy lost power due to heat-related equipment failure. As of
roughly 10 p.m., there were 3,300 customers still without power, Guidi said.
	   Another heat-related power outage affected customers in the East
Bay, with an estimated 6,000 customers losing their electrical service.
Roughly 500 of them are still waiting to have their power turned on,
according to Guidi.
	   "We had various equipment failures related to heat," Guidi said,
explaining that transformers had overloaded due to high temperatures and
heavy use.
	
	   Dave Brooksher (BCN)
	
	   CONTACT: PG&E Media Line (415) 973-5930

The Planet seems to be online again, so I'll be posting these stories
eventually, but you heard it first here.  Also, the Planet's former
copy
 editor Zippie Collins reports that the power is back on in North
Berkeley after it was out from 8 to 10..
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