Thousands in Southern California face loss of power in fire weather

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At least 50,000 Southern California residents could lose power Friday as part of precautionary cutoffs to prevent sparking fires, Utility Southern California Edison says.

Embers fly from a tree as the Mountain View Fire burns through the Walker community in Mono County, Calif., on Nov. 17.Thousands of utility customers in Southern California were warned they could be in the dark Friday because dry, windy fire weather was whipping the region.

Initially 100,000 customers were under consideration for precautionary power cutoffs to prevent sparking fires, but that number was reduced to 47,000 by afternoon, said Taelor Bakewell, a spokeswoman for Southern California Edison.Customers in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties could still be affected, she said. Another 2,739 customers in San Diego County were warned of possible shutoffs from San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility said.

The city of Los Angeles has its own taxpayer-run utility that doesn't participate in precautionary outages. The shutoffs have otherwise became customary during dry, windy weather in California.

 

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SCE is worthless. Their CEO must resign.

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They are always losing power

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instead of maintaining their lines, they just shut them off. they know their grid is shitty

But JoeBiden wants to ⬆️⬆️👍

Talk about a massive market failure . . . We need better government in DC to help to improve this and many other situations. The GOP needs to go away and reinvent itself. =

Or are they having to shut down those wind turbines because the wind speed is too high?

California is dumpster fire pretending to be a state.

Joe will help,you soon.

Why clear some underbrush when it's easier to just cut power to everyone?

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