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WWWP · 06-08-2019, 12:51 PM

Red Flag Warning Prompts PG&E to Proactively Shut Off Power

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Pacific Gas & Electric said it will shut off power Saturday to about 1,600 customers in Northern California and may do the same for thousands more to reduce the risk of wildfires.

The utility announced Friday night that as of Saturday morning it will turn off electricity to customers in Napa, Solano and Yolo counties west of Sacramento.

The utility said it also will monitor conditions in parts of the Sierra foothills Saturday night through Sunday when they will be at peak fire risk. The company said it could decide to cut power to 30,000 customers in Butte, Yuba, Nevada, El Dorado and Placer counties starting at 6 a.m. Saturday. The peak fire risk will last until 10 a.m. Sunday, according to PG&E.

so they won't admit responsibility for their faulty equipment causing fires and as such won't fix their faulty equipment instead they're just cutting power to all the poor areas

OccultHawk · 06-08-2019, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP

Red Flag Warning Prompts PG&E to Proactively Shut Off Power

so they won't admit responsibility for their faulty equipment causing fires and as such won't fix their faulty equipment instead they're just cutting power to all the poor areas

It seems like mother****ers cranking up generators and lighting candles would be just as risky. I don’t know anything about PG&E and how negligent they are but the wildfires aren’t going to stop as long as the earth keeps heating up and people keep spreading out into every nook and cranny of California. I like how rich people are even buying their own private fire department service.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nge-capitalism

WWWP · 06-08-2019, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It seems like mother****ers cranking up generators and lighting candles would be just as risky. I don’t know anything about PG&E and how negligent they are but the wildfires aren’t going to stop as long as the earth keeps heating up and people keep spreading out into every nook and cranny of California. I like how rich people are even buying their own private fire department service.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nge-capitalism

it's an open secret that their badly maintained equipment caused the fire that wiped out the neighborhood next to me, but i know what you mean. the "ranch fire" earlier in 2018 was found to have been caused by a spark from a hammer. cal fire is on the radio practically begging people to just stay off the roads and lay low through the weekend.

Spark from hammer, metal stake caused Ranch fire in 2018, California’s largest wildfire

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California’s largest wildfire was ignited by a scattered spark or hot metal fragment formed when a Potter Valley rancher used a metal hammer last summer to drive a large metal stake into a yellow jacket nest on a dry, grassy slope on his Highway 20 ranch, Cal Fire said Thursday.

The result was the Ranch fire — a conflagration that consumed more than 641 square miles of landscape as it stormed into Lake County and the vast Mendocino National Forest, eventually reaching into Colusa and Glenn counties.

A Utah firefighter, Draper Fire Department Battalion Chief Matthew Burchett, lost his life fighting the blaze, which started July 27 and raged through remote countryside for a month. The rampaging fire destroyed or damaged 280 structures mostly north of Clear Lake, including 138 single-family homes and one multifamily residence, Cal Fire said.

Together with the 49,000-acre River fire, which began about an hour later near Hopland, the 410,203-acre inferno became known as the Mendocino Complex fire, one of several dozen incidents that would make 2018 the deadliest and most devastating wildfire season the state of California and the nation have ever seen.

The cause of the River fire has not yet been announced.