LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday night that Lake County is not among seven counties across the North Bay and Sierra Foothills that will be part of a second public safety power shutoff scheduled to begin early Wednesday morning because of fire weather conditions.
The company said it has been monitoring weather forecasts hourly and has determined a second public safety power shutoff is necessary for approximately 48,200 customers in the North Bay and Sierra Foothill regions due to continued hot, dry and windy weather conditions.
Wednesday’s public safety power shutoff event will include customers in portions of seven counties: Butte, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sonoma and Yuba.
For this second shutoff event over a two-day period, based on elevated weather conditions – including potential fire risk – PG&E will be turning off the power for safety at approximately 2:30 a.m. in the Sierra Foothills, and in the North Bay at approximately 4:30 a.m., both Wednesday.
Windy weather conditions are expected to last until noon on Wednesday.
Affected customers are as follows:
– 22,836 in Butte County, in Bangor, Berry Creek, Brush Creek, Butte Meadows, Chico, Feather Falls, Forbestown, Forest Ranch, Magalia, Oroville, Palermo, Paradise, Stirling City and Yankee Hill;
– 708 in Napa County, in Calistoga, Lake Berryessa, Napa;
– 16,506 in Nevada County, in Cedar Ridge, Chicago Park, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Penn Valley and Rough and Ready;
– 2,633 in Placer County, in Auburn and Foresthill;
– Four in Plumas County, in Storrie;
– 711 in Sonoma County, in Santa Rosa;
– and 4,833 in Yuba County, in Browns Valley, Brownsville, Camptonville, Challenge, Dobbins, Loma Rica, Marysville, Oregon House, Rackerby and Smartville.
At 5 p.m. Monday PG&E initiated a public safety power shutoff impacting approximately 24,000 customers, as Lake County News has reported.
PG&E said that essentially all customers included in Monday’s shutoff event were restored by 6 p.m. Tuesday.
During the inspection process, four incidents of weather-related equipment damage were identified, PG&E said.
The company said its personnel and aerial resources are standing by and ready to respond for inspections, repairs and restoration once the weather subsides. Those same crews conducted safety patrols on Monday following the first shutoff event.
After the dry and windy weather has passed and it is safe to do so, PG&E said its crews will work to visually inspect each mile of our power lines to ensure they are free from damage and safe to energize.
Inspections will take place during daylight hours and, in most cases, the company said it expects to be able to restore power within 24 to 48 hours after the dry and windy weather has passed.
However, depending on weather conditions or if any repairs are needed, outages – the weather event plus restoration time – could last longer than 48 hours.
Lake County not included in second public safety power shutoff planned for Wednesday
- Lake County News reports
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