An expected 800,000 PG&E customers will be impacted by proactive power shutoffs in parts of several Bay Area counties and across much of Northern, Central and coast California due to high fire danger.
Full coverage on the power shutoffs can be found here.
Here’s a list of Bay Area schools that plan to cancel classes during the power outages:
South Bay
- Alum Rock Union School District schools will be closed Wednesday and Thursday.
North Bay
Napa County
- Napa Valley Unified schools closed on both Wednesday and Thursday.
- St. Helena Unified closed Wednesday.
- Howell Mountain ESD closed Wednesday and Thursday.
- Napa County Office of Educaton: after school and preschool programs on NVUSD campuses will be closed. The St. Helena Child Development Center will be closed.
Sonoma County school districts
- Alexander Valley (closed Wednesday, Oct. 9 and Thursday, Oct. 10)
- Bennett Valley Union School District (closed Wednesday, Oct. 9)
- Cloverdale Unified School District (closed Wednesday, Oct. 9)
- Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District (closed Wednesday, Oct. 9)
- Kashia School District (closed Wednesday, Oct. 9)
- Geyserville Unified School District (closed Wednesday, Oct. 9)
- Mark West Union School District (closed Wednesday with a projected closure on Thursday, Oct. 10 as well)
- Old Adobe Union School District: Only Sonoma Mountain and Old Adobe charter schools closed for Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The following schools in the Santa Rosa City Schools district will be closed Wednesday:
- Maria Carrillo High
- Rincon Valley Middle
- Santa Rosa Middle
- Hidden Valley Elementary
- Proctor Terrace Elementary
- Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School
- Lewis Education Center
- All after-school programs at those schools, such as athletics and childcare, are also canceled.
East Bay
Oakland Unified School District says all schools are in session with the exception of Skyline High School, which will close Wednesday.
Here’s a list of Oakland schools that could potentially close during a power shutoff. The following schools may lose power around noon Wednesday, officials say:
- Grass Valley Elementary
- Howard Elementary
- Montclair Elementary
- Sequoia Elementary
- Fruitvale Elementary
- Elmhurst United Middle School
- Skyline High School
- *Rudsdale High School
- *Sojourner Truth Independent Academy
- *BayTech Charter School
*share same campus
Colleges:
- UC Berkeley has canceled classes Wednesday. The campus will remain open, though services will be limited.
- Mills College has canceled classes for Wednesday and Thursday.
- Santa Rosa Junior College has canceled classes during the outages.
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