California prepares for life without electricity as PG&E utility will shut off power for a few days to prevent wildfires caused by fierce winds knocking down power lines
FILE PHOTO: PG&E works on power lines to repair damage caused by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, US on November 21, 2018.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention said it increased staffing in preparation for extreme fire weather. It could take as many as five days to restore power after the danger has passed because every inch of power line must be checked to make sure it isn't damaged or in danger of sparking a blaze, PG&E said.
But the outages weren't limited to fire-prone areas because the utilities must turn off entire distribution and transmission lines to much wider areas to minimize the risk of wildfires. Residents of the Sonoma County city of Cloverdale, population 9,300, were preparing for the possibility of zero power and downed internet and cellphone lines, as happened during the wine country fires. Cloverdale homes were not burned then, but residents were worried sick over family in burn zones and in the dark without communications, Mayor Melanie Bagby said."It's inexcusable that we're in the situation that we're in," she said.
"The backup generators that we have are stationed at the pumping plants, which pump water to the fire hydrants," spokeswoman Andrea Pook told the San Francisco Chronicle. "The local tanks have been filled as much as we can, and we have made sure the generators are ready to go.
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