Power almost fully restored in San Francisco after outage.

Power is being restored to tens of thousands of San Francisco businesses and residences following a Saturday outage affecting 130,000 customers caused by a fire at an electrical substation, according to PG&E. By Sunday morning, power had been restored to about 110,000 customers, with 21,000 remaining primarily in certain districts. No injuries were reported, and the grid was stabilized by 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, with the substation fire under control by 6 p.m. The blackout disrupted holiday shopping and traffic, with the cause of the fire still under investigation.

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