Fire at PGE substation in Saratoga leaves 21,000 customers without power
Dec 24, 2025
A fire at a PGE substation in Saratoga has left about 21,000 customers in the South Bay without power Wednesday morning, according to the utility.
The fire occurred at about 8:25 a.m. and has since been contained, PGE officials said on social media shortly after 10 a.m.
PGE said its “leaders
are on-site supporting crews first responders” but did not share any other information about the fire.
A separate PGE substation fire in San Francisco last weekend left nearly a third of the utility’s customers in the city without power at the peak of the outage Saturday, and some customers did not have power restored until early Tuesday.
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