California Power Outage Schedule Pg E Begins Planned Blackouts As Kincade Fire Rages In Sonoma County
PG&E has faced untempered criticism and a slew of lawsuits over its role in California’s devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018. In January the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, specifically referencing the Camp fire that killed 86 people destroyed the town of Paradise in 2018–as well as the 2017 fires that ravaged Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and more northern counties and caused 44 deaths. This time around, the utility is taking a proactive stance, repeatedly cutting power during periods of dry, windy weather in a bid to prevent downed power lines or sparking transformers from igniting another catastrophe....