SF Mayor Lee calls Candlestick outages 'national embarrassment' [View all]

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NOTE: I considered posting this under California, but decided on General Discussion because it was witnesses by a national audience.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called the power outages that left fans and players in the dark at Monday night's 49ers game at Candlestick Park a "national embarrassment" at a news conference Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters after an unrelated news conference that morning, Lee said he would "make sure that we've covered every base so this doesn't happen again."

Lee, who was at Monday night's game, said he spoke with PG&E CEO Anthony Earley Tuesday morning and was told that the first outage was caused by a splice failure on an overhead line near the stadium, and that the cause of the second outage was under investigation.

The first outage began at 5:19 p.m., shortly before the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers was scheduled to begin. Service was restored 20 minutes later and the game got under way, but the lights went out again at about 6:45 p.m. during the second quarter.

Candlestick Park was the only facility in the area to be affected by the outage. No homes lost power.


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