INVERNESS | BAY AREA REGIONAL UTILITY REPORT | October 22, 2026. The October 21 San Francisco vault fire briefly disrupted central-city electrical service. For Inverness readers it is a nearby regional event, not a verified interruption at homes or businesses in Inverness.
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 Inverness affected?
There is no verified Inverness-specific outage linked to this incident in the source information used for this brief. The San Francisco reports concerned the Tenderloin/Civic Center area and should not be enlarged into a countywide Bay Area blackout. Most affected city service was reported restored the same evening.
What local readers should know
Any local Inverness outage would need its own provider incident record, timing and customer count; do not apply the San Francisco figures.
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 Inverness 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 Inverness.
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