Pacific Gas & Electric is planning a new round of blackouts in northern California to prevent fierce winds from damaging power equipment and sparking fires.
Pacific Gas & Electric says it has restored service to hundreds of thousands of Northern California customers affected by last weekend’s planned blackouts as it prepares for another round of shut-offs.
PG&E says the latest planned blackout will affect 605,000 customers — about 1.5 million people — starting early Tuesday. Some of the actions, including opening an investigation, require a formal vote of commissioners, which has not been scheduled. Commission president Marybel Batjer says California cannot continue to experience such widespread blackouts.
Officials earlier lifted some evacuation orders. But thousands of people are still being told to stay away. Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas says his firefighters had to make tough choices about which homes could be saved.The dry offshore gusts are expected to be replaced by a return of moist ocean air in the afternoon. But Santa Ana winds are forecast to return Tuesday night.Pacific Gas & Electric says it failed to notify 23,000 customers, including 500 with medical conditions, before shutting off their power to prevent wildfires earlier this month.
Millions faced blackouts this weekend while fires are raging on both ends of California, and more shutoffs are expected in the coming days.The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. utility says its power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area.PG&E told the California Public Utilities Commission that a worker responded to the first fire around 4:45 p.m.
The museum says its artworks are protected by state-of-the-art technology and that the “safest place for the art and library collections is inside.” The fire started last week and has been fanned by extremely heavy winds. It has destroyed 96 buildings so far and threatens 80,000 structures in several wine country communities.
Classes in Northern California have been canceled for 40 school districts in Sonoma County north of San Francisco because of a large wildfire. Boyle says he grabbed dog food and his wife’s jewelry and hustled his dogs, Cokie and Jackson, out the door to the Westwood Recreation Center. The evacuation area encompasses some of the most exclusive real estate in California, where celebrities and executives live in mountain and ridgetop retreats that costs tens of millions of dollars.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Monday that the fire in Sonoma County north of San Francisco now spans 103 square miles . That’s up from 85 square miles on Sunday. Two so-called “Super Scooper” turboprop airplanes that scoop up water from lakes and reservoirs have begun making drops, along with converted jets unleashing loads of bright pink retardant.
The fire was reported at about 1:30 a.m. near Interstate 405 on the west side of Sepulveda Pass where Interstate 405 passes through the Santa Monica Mountains. It roared up slopes to the city’s Mountaingate area and westward into canyon and ridgeline neighborhoods of Brentwood. The mayor says the fire is believed to have grown to about 400 acres , pushed by winds from 15-20 mph .
Basketball star LeBron James is among evacuees as a fire that erupted early Monday in Southern California grows to more than 70 acres . Although the Getty Center is nearby, officials say the facility was built with thick walls and doors to compartmentalize any flames.
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