Power outage affects Broadway Burlingame retail district and surrounding neighborhoods

A power outage in Burlingame was affecting a major downtown shopping district and surrounding neighborhoods Wednesday, authorities said.

Pacific Gas and Electric indicated on an outage map that power was out to about 930 customers in the area. The outage affected the busy Broadway Burlingame retail district, as well as the Burlingame Gate, Burlingame Terrace, and Burlingame Gardens neighborhoods. 

Burlingame police said Broadway was closed between Chula Vista and Carolan avenues in the area of California Avenue and the Broadway Caltrain station.

There have been a series of outages in downtown Burlingame over the last several days, according to business owners. Multiple portable generators have been placed around the downtown area.

Earlier Wednesday, the Central County Fire Department said its crews were called out to the area to check on a possible gas leak.

PG&E has not yet indicated what caused Wednesday’s outage.

This is a breaking news update. More information to be added as available.