LA HONDA | BAY AREA REGIONAL UTILITY REPORT | October 22, 2026. The electrical vault fire reported in central San Francisco Wednesday evening is a regional story for La Honda readers, but no La Honda interruption was independently verified as part of this incident.
On Wednesday evening, October 21, an underground electrical vault fire near Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street in San Francisco accompanied a PG&E power outage that affected approximately 2,775 customers, primarily in the Tenderloin and Civic Center. San Francisco News, California58’s original local reporter for this event, documented the fire response, transportation impacts and restoration updates. The majority of the affected service was reported restored later Wednesday evening.
This is a past, location-specific incident, not a report that power remains out across the Bay Area on October 22.
Was La Honda affected?
There is no verified La Honda-specific outage linked to this incident in the source information used for this brief. Mountain-community utility reliability and underground urban infrastructure are different questions. Reports about the Tenderloin cannot be used to identify damage or service loss along the San Mateo mountain roads.
What local readers should know
If mountain electric service is affected, a utility address search and local emergency notices are more informative than a metropolitan incident headline.
Check the PG&E outage center for current status at an address where PG&E is the provider. To report an outage call 1-800-743-5002. For downed wires or an immediate hazard, remain clear and call 911.
Original local newsroom
The detailed account is in San Francisco News: October 21 Tenderloin/Civic Center Electrical Vault Fire. That local newsroom is the primary report in our network; this La Honda brief supplies geographic context for neighboring readers without asserting a separate blackout.
Editorial note: The customer number was a dated incident count, not a live Bay Area total. This is a California58 regional brief for readers near San Francisco and makes no local outage claim for La Honda.
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