

The owner was told that the power may not come back on until 10 a.m. He tells us the power went out Wednesday night during a private event which was then forced to end early with tabs left open. "We're just hoping that we get the power back up as soon as possible," said the owner of San Francisco's Barbarossa Lounge. While the fire is now out, so are the lights for hundreds of customers.

"There was a big ball of orange flame with greasy black smoke that billowed out of two different manholes," said Amy Zubreski. Flames could be seen shooting out of a manhole, and smoke coming out of another manhole near Clay and Montgomery. Viewer video sent to us Thursday showed the underground transformer fire that burned. The outage in parts of San Francisco's Financial District and North Beach neighborhood is being blamed on an underground fire that happened Wednesday night. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - Hundreds are still without power in San Francisco and one business tells us they are losing thousands of dollars because of it.

San Francisco's Barbarossa Lounge says they will lose more than $50,000 due to a power outage caused by an underground fire.
