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Reuters | Nearly 50,000 Without Power in San Francisco
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Sun December 21, 2003 02:26 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nearly 50,000 customers were without power in San Francisco on Sunday following a substation fire that left one-third of the city in the dark and wreaked havoc on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Brian Swanson, a spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.., said that at the peak of the power outage on Saturday evening, 119,000 business and residential customers had no electricity.

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The areas of San Francisco hardest hit by the outage were the civic center, the financial district and the Mission district south of Market Street, the city's main thoroughfare.

more...http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4028298
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