Power restored to tens of thousands after Bay Area outages

Power has been restored to tens of thousands of people in the San Francisco Bay Area following two separate outages, one caused by a squirrel and another by heat.|
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SAN FRANCISCO — Power has been restored to tens of thousands of people in the San Francisco Bay Area following two separate outages, one caused by a squirrel and another by heat.

Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman JD Guidi said Tuesday that the utility restored electricity to 45,000 people by 10:30 p.m. Monday after the animal got into a substation in El Cerrito.

A Berkeley BART station also was closed for about two hours.

Guidi says a separate, heat-related outage knocked out power to 12,000 customers in the South Bay, mostly in San Jose, and 6,000 people in the East Bay. About 100 people still lacking electricity are expected to get it back Tuesday.

Guidi says the heat and increased demand caused the outage. Temperatures surpassed 100 degrees Monday in some inland parts of the Bay Area.

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This story has been corrected to show the larger outage was caused by a squirrel and was not heat-related.

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