Thousands of PG&E customers in Oakland were still without power early Monday following a fire Sunday at one of the utility's substations.
As of 4 a.m. Monday, just over 8,500 customers were impacted by the outage, PG&E said. Power was expected to be restored by noon.
The outage impacted over 50,000 customers, including the Oakland International Airport. A PG&E spokesperson said the utility at 7 p.m. Sunday had restored service to about 20,000 customers, but added some customers may remain without power for up to 12 hours as crews work to replace a transformer damaged in the fire.
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Oakland International Airport reported an outage just before 1 p.m. when a PG&E line went out. An airport spokesperson said despite the outage, Terminal 1 had one lane open at security screening and Terminal 2 had two screening lanes open. Power at the airport was restored at 2:20 p.m.
BART said its Oakland Airport Connector was on limited service during the outage.
The blaze at a PG&E substation in the area of 5000 Coliseum Way was extinguished at 2:30 p.m., firefighters said. The public was asked to avoid the Coliseum Way corridor from High Street to 66th Avenue during the fire and response.
