The city of Oakland had a massive power outage on Sunday that impacted about 50,000 people.
The power outage reportedly was caused by a fire at a PG&E substation.
“Oakland Fire is currently responding to a Fire at the PG&E substation near 50th Avenue and Coliseum Way. PG&E reports approximately 50K customers in the City of Oakland may be impacted by this outage,” the Oakland Fire Department tweeted.
Oakland Fire is currently responding to a Fire at the PG&E substation near 50th Avenue and Coliseum Way. PG&E reports approximately 50K customers in the City of Oakland may be impacted by this outage. Please check the PG&E outage map at https://t.co/l6SyUTfHA6 for current status. pic.twitter.com/4BfDKTLPTx
— Oakland Fire Department (CA) (@OaklandFireCA) February 19, 2023
The outage brought Oakland International Airport to a “standstill.”
“Power outage apparently, all of…