Pacific Gas and Electric Co. shut off power Sunday across parts of Northern California, including areas of the Bay Area, as strong, dry winds raised wildfire danger and thousands of customers were left without electricity.
PG&E’s outage center showed 46,664 customers affected by 549 outages as of 3:43 p.m. Sunday, though that total appeared to include both planned public safety power shutoffs and unplanned outages.
- PG&E outage map:Bay Area shutoff details by address
The utility said public safety power shutoffs had been announced to help prevent wildfires.
The shutoffs were visible across a broad stretch of PG&E’s outage map, including clusters in the North Bay, East Bay, Sacramento Valley, Central Valley and Sierra foothills…