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Skyline
Fallen power line closes the campus to in-person classes until the next evening
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On Sunday, July 9, 2023, a PG&E power line fell on Longview Drive in San Bruno, knocking power out to Skyline College and forcing the closure of in-person classes and business operations. The outage was first reported at 7:09 AM PDT Sunday; SMCCD issued a closure alert through AlertMe and the district emergency notices page before Skyline reopened at 5 PM PDT Monday, July 10, with online classes continuing throughout.
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Alert Sequence
3 messages in sequence · 2 verified verbatim
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Dear Skyline Community,
Crews are currently restoring power to the Skyline campus and in-person classes and business operations will remain closed this afternoon. Skyline College campus will reopen for in-person classes and business operations at 5 p.m., today, Monday, July 10, 2023.
Online classes will continue as regularly scheduled.
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SMCCCD Alerts & Notices — Skyline power outage reopen notice (7/10/2023)emergency.smccd.infoarchived copyVerbatim recovery from official SMCCCD Alerts & Notices page; preserves exact wording including reopen time and online-classes clause.
Intermediate notice while PG&E/campus crews were still restoring power and in-person operations remained closed that afternoon.
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UPDATE: 7/10/23 at 2:45 p.m.
Dear Skyline College Community,
Power has been restored to campus and Skyline College will reopen for in-person classes and business operations at5 p.m., today, Monday, July 10, 2023.
Online classes will continue as regularly scheduled.
Thank you for your flexibility and patience.
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SMCCCD Alerts & Notices — Skyline power restored update 2:45 p.m. (7/10/2023)emergency.smccd.infoarchived copyVerbatim recovery from official SMCCCD update post; preserves typo "at5 p.m." (missing space) as transmitted.
2:45 p.m. update confirming power restored with 5 p.m. reopen; includes thank-you closing.
Context
Background
On Sunday morning, July 9, 2023, a PG&E power line fell on Longview Drive in San Bruno for an unknown reason, first reported at 7:09 AM PDT. The majority of affected San Bruno residents had their power back by 8:30 AM PDT, but Skyline College's San Bruno hilltop campus remained without power and was forced to close for in-person classes and business operations. SMCCD distributed alerts through its AlertMe district notification system, with closure information also posted on the district Alerts & Notices page. The closure continued through Monday morning. At approximately 4:00 PM PDT Monday, the district issued its verbatim reopening alert: Skyline College Will Reopen for In-person Classes and Business Operations at 5 p.m., today, Monday, July 10, 2023. Online classes continued uninterrupted throughout the closure, a continuity-of-instruction pattern that has become standard at SMCCD and across California Community Colleges since 2020. The incident is one of several Skyline-area power events documented by The Skyline View student newspaper in 2023.
Analysis
Key Findings
Skyline's response (close in-person operations, continue online classes) reflects a post-pandemic continuity-of-instruction model that has become a default community-college playbook for infrastructure failures
The verbatim headline alert ('Skyline College Will Reopen for In-person Classes and Business Operations at 5 p.m., today, Monday, July 10, 2023') is unusually detailed for an SMS-style alert, suggesting it was an email or web notice rather than character-constrained SMS
The closure was triggered by a single downed line on Longview Drive that affected only one circuit; most San Bruno residents had power back within 90 minutes, but Skyline's campus circuit took 24+ hours to restore
Outcome
PG&E crews restored power; campus reopened for in-person classes and business operations at 5 PM PDT on Monday, July 10, 2023. Online classes continued uninterrupted. No injuries.
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Cite this case
Campus Alert Archive. "Skyline College: Fallen power line closes the campus to in-person classes until the next evening." Incident of July 9, 2023. Added May 2026; last updated July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/skyline-college-san-bruno-power-outage-closure-2023-07-09/
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Added May 2026Updated July 2026Via ingestion