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CNN) — More than 25,000 wildland firefighters, support personnel and incident management teams are battling dozens of large fires across the US, and the potential for additional significant fires is expected to continue for another month, the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) said. There are currently 104 large fires burning in the US, scorching a total of […]
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – Intense winds throughout the Inland Empire brought down power lines in multiple locations Monday, triggering electrical outages that affected several thousand people. According to Southern California Edison, one of the largest outages was in Jurupa Valley, where damaged lines caused a blackout impacting 1,451 customers in the predawn hours. Technicians were still […]
(CNN) — A California utility company has begun shutting off power to nearly 53,000 customers as hot, dry and windy weather threatens to spark yet more fires. Wildfires in California have burned over 4.1 million acres in the state this year and claimed the lives of 31 people, according to Cal Fire. As a response to the […]
Hundreds of thousands of residents throughout central and northern California are without electricity today as PG&E cut power overnight. Shortly after 10:00PM Monday the utility turned off electricity to 172,000 customers as a “Public Safety Power Shutoff” (PSPS) in advance of predicted winds. PG&E is trying to avoid a repeat of past disasters where lives […]
Just as firefighters got a grip on a blaze that tore through the swanky Pacific Palisades, other Californians are at risk of unpredictable wildfires this week. About 209,000 customers could have their power shut off this week mitigate the risk, Pacific Gas & Electric said. “The potential safety shutoff is planned for varying start times depending […]
Pacific Gas & Electric CEO Bill Johnson has issued a public mea culpa after a very bad week in which employees of California’s largest utility have been cursed at and attacked, its vehicles fired upon and offices egged. “I want to be clear, the buck stops with me on these events,” Johnson told reporters Thursday […]
California’s largest utility has intentionally cut power to roughly 500,000 customers in Northern California — a number that’s scheduled to rise later Wednesday — as the company tries to prevent wildfires during extremely windy and dry conditions. Pacific Gas & Electric started the shutoff early Wednesday, just after midnight, leaving parts of 22 counties — […]
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced it has reached an $11 billion settlement with insurance companies for claims stemming from the devastating 2017 wildfires in northern California and the 2018 Camp Fire. A statement from the company Friday said the settlement covers 85% of the claims. “Today’s settlement is another step in doing what’s right […]
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