BREAKING: Power Restored--Blame the Nutty Squirrel

Update:

PG&E has now restored power in Albany and surrounding cities. According to a company spokesman, 45,000 customers lost power at the height of the outage.

The cause: a squirrel.

“Looks like it was caused by a squirrel at a substation in El Cerrito,” J.D. Guidi said.

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Earlier:

On a hot night when plenty of people would like nothing better than to crank the air conditioner, PG&E is reporting a major power outage that affects more than 25,000 customers.

The outage stretches from San Pablo to the north almost to South Berkeley.

Related: BREAKING: Power Outage Still Impacting More Than 4,100 Customers in Tri-Valley

BART reports that trains are not stopping at the Berkeley station because of the outage.

No other problems have been reported.

PG&E estimates that all power should be restored at 10:45 p.m.

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