By Maya Strausberg
June 25, 2008
A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokeswoman said they have determined that what fire officials called an underground vault explosion in San Francisco yesterday was caused by cable failure.
A fire dispatcher said the incident occurred around 4 p.m. at Drumm and California streets but PG&E spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian could not confirm that the incident was in fact a vault explosion.
She did say that PG&E is working to determine what caused the cable failure and added that 11 customers had been “de-energized” while the company pinpointed and fixed the problem.
Those customers are not expected to have power back until 8 a.m. today, said Sarkissian.
“We are working to provide safe and reliable power to our customers; that’s out first priority,” said Sarkissian.
The incident has disrupted San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency cable car service on the California line and the agency is providing bus shuttles.
In addition, the 1-California and the 41-Union are switching back at Clay and Drumm streets.
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