Place lets begin with Kristie Smith smith tracking story for hours you have good news as well. Thats right. This outage had a donl o effect had hitting different parts of the city the good news, power restored. Paigen says it started with a single problem in the larkin substation. All started at San Francisco firefighters responded to reports of smoke at substags at larkin and eddy. Pg e says it was equipment failure. A catastrophic failure of one of the circumstance breaker. When the circumstance breaker failed it created a fire around the breaker. The insulation around the breaker burned. And thats what created the situation for us. Reporter and a situation for 88,000 customers who lost power. The impact was widespread hitting homes, businesses Public Transportation, schools and triggering traffic grid lock as signals went dark. From the start of the incident we had about 3 oh oh Traffic Signals down. Out about of 12 oh oh a acquire of the signals. From the citys Northeast Corner and
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