PG&E shuts off power to thousands of Bay Area, Northern California customers because of fire danger
Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers were without power Wednesday morning following a new round of public safety outages because of high winds and low humidity.
PG&E said it began de-energizing customers at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening as part of its planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs in areas prone to wildfires. The outages began with 1,339 customers in Lake and Sonoma counties and continued at 7 p.m. with 1,019 customers losing power in Napa and Solano counties.
Wednesday morning, there were outages across the Bay Area and Northern California; including Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tehama, and Yolo counties. View PG&E outage map.
As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, most of the Bay Area outages were in Napa (4,575) and Solano (4,496) counties. Sonoma County had 1,808 customers without power, Santa Clara County had 1,709, Contra Costa County had 1,205, Alameda 1,112, and Santa Cruz County had 400 customers without power.
PG&E said there were no impacts to polling locations or tabulation centers except for one temporary outage at a Santa Rosa polling site. The utility said it dispatched a generator to the site in response.
The Bay Area was under a Red Flag Warning because of the critical fire danger the winds and low humidity presented. The warning was in effect until 7 a.m. Thursday for most of the Bay Area, a large swath of the Northern California Central Valley, and the higher terrains of the Central Coast.
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