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In this image from a U.S. Forest Service wildfire monitoring camera, plumes of smoke rise from the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2021. (U.S. Forest Service\/ALERTWildfire Network via AP)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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California Utility Cutting Power to 51,000 Customers Amid Dangerous Wildfire Conditions<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The nation\u2019s largest utility announced on Tuesday evening that it has begun shutting off power to some 51,000 customers as a large wildfire, fueled by winds, raged through a small Northern\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0forest town.<\/p>\n

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E<\/a>) in a\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0said it made the decision to prevent winds from knocking down or fouling power lines and sparking new blazes, citing \u201cdry offshore winds, extreme to exceptional drought conditions and extremely dry vegetation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Power will be shut off in small portions of 18 northern California counties, including the Sierra Nevada foothills, the North Coast, the North Valley and the North Bay mountains, the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith these high winds and extremely dry climate conditions, we are focused on customer and community safety. It\u2019s never an easy decision to turn off the power for safety, but it is the right thing to do to keep everyone safe,\u201d PG&E Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer\u00a0Marlene Santos said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The release notes that the company expects \u201call clears\u201d will occur around Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand how disruptive and inconvenient it is to lose power. The sole focus of a PSPS [Public Safety Power Shutoff] is to keep our customers safe. As soon as this extreme weather passes, our crews will be inspecting our equipment and the vegetation around it, making repairs and restoring power as soon as it\u2019s safe to do so,\u201d Santos added.<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proclaimed a state of emergency for El Dorado County because of the Caldor fire, which tripled in size between Monday and Tuesday afternoon to nearly 50 square miles (129 square kilometers).<\/p>\n

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In this image from a U.S. Forest Service wildfire monitoring camera, plumes of smoke rise from the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2021. (U.S. Forest Service\/ALERTWildfire Network via AP) California Utility Cutting Power to 51,000 Customers Amid Dangerous Wildfire Conditions The nation\u2019s largest utility announced on Tuesday evening that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[101,1574,16350,4849],"class_list":["post-59039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-california","tag-power-grid","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59041,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59039\/revisions\/59041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}