Hundreds of people in El Dorado County still living in the dark
Downed trees have left hundreds of people living in the foothills powerless as temperatures drop into near-freezing temperatures overnight.
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Downed trees have left hundreds of people living in the foothills powerless as temperatures drop into near-freezing temperatures overnight.
Saturday evening's warm meal comes as many people are holding their breath ahead of the next round of storms.
The lights are back on as of Thursday night for hundreds of Clarksburg neighbors who have been in the dark since New Year's Eve.
PG&E held this press conference Thursday (1/5). Thousands of customers in Northern California still do not have power.
PG&E is holding a press conference.
A lot of SMUD and PG&E customers are still in the dark as the threat grows for more outages with the next storm. Authorities say the coming storm will cut off power to even more customers than the storm on New Year's Eve.
Agencies across California are scrambling to batten down the hatches before Wednesday's major storm and to restore power to powerless areas before this next wave of weather hits.
PG&E says it's bringing in additional crews to restore power.
The Placer County Water Agency is suing PG&E for damages from the Mosquito Fire that cost the agency $10M+.
California regulators proposed on Tuesday fining Pacific Gas & Electric more than $155 million for sparking a 2020 wildfire in Northern California that destroyed 200 homes and left four people dead.
The refund is called the Annual California Climate Credit. It's part of the state's efforts to fight climate change. About $5 million electric customers will receive $39.30 back on their October bills. Last year, it was only $17. Natural gas customers got a $47 credit back in April.
Several schools in Davis were evacuated for a time due to the smell of natural gas Tuesday morning.
Federal investigators have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment in a criminal probe into what started a Northern California fire that has become the largest in the state this year, the utility said in a regulatory filing Monday.
U.S. Forest Service officials indicated to PG&E that an initial assessment showed the Mosquito Fire started near one of its power lines on National Forest lands.
PG&E is now being sued by a group of residents for allegedly starting the Mosquito Fire.
Temperatures hit record highs in the Sacramento Region on Tuesday, taxing electrical equipment.
More than 12,000 PG&E customers in Davis were powerless during some of the hottest temperatures of the day Tuesday when the highs topped out at 113 degrees.
The state's independent electrical grid operator, Cal ISO, says we've reached a critical stage and that rolling blackouts could be coming.
PG&E cut power to thousands of people as emergency crews worked to get the person down.
PG&E says someone climbed a transmission tower in Stockton, prompting the utility to cut power to thousands of customers Monday morning.
PG&E says someone has climbed a transmission tower in Stockton, prompting the utility to cut power to thousands of customers Monday morning.
At the height of the outage, some 73,000 PG&E customers were without power.
PG&E customers across large swaths of El Dorado County are dealing with power outages on Wednesday morning.
In an area damaged by the Caldor Fire, PG&E will put six miles of overhead lines underground. That is a portion of the 175 miles of undergrounding that the company says they will complete this year.
A power outage in Grass Valley on Tuesday morning was caused by a squirrel and tree branch that came into contact with a line, officials say.
