PG&E announced Sunday they may be shutting off power to portions of 32 counties across California starting Tuesday.
PG&E says they are monitoring a new wind event forecasted for Tuesday morning through midday Wednesday.
The shutoff could impact portions of 32 counties across the Northern and Southern Sierra, North Bay, Bay Area, Santa Cruz mountains, North Coast and Kern County.
This weather event is a separate system from the one that triggered the October 26 shutoff that is still active. The utility already has turned off power to more than 2.3 million people in an effort to prevent its equipment from sparking deadly wildfires.
Those outages are expected to last through Monday morning.
PG&E says they will try to restore power to as many customers as possible who are currently blacked out...
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Shutting off the power certainly has not diminished the number of fires. A dashcam video on the internet shows the origin of one of the large fires immediately beside the freeway. When the feds and California come to the realization that a high percentage of these fires are the result of ARSON then possibly they will be able to get on top of this constant growing danger of "wild fire".
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