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Nearly 70,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers across California are without power as the company carried out public safety power shutoffs intended to reduce wildfire risks.
Nearly 90,000 customers across 29 counties were without power, with more shutoffs expected Thursday and Friday.
More than 9,000 customers in Placer County are among those who have been warned they could lose electricity beginning Wednesday evening.
The shutoffs could impact over 12,000 people across 17 counties.
Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers across Northern California had their power restored after the utility cut off power because of the risk of wildfires on Saturday.
Some residents in several Northern California counties could see their power cut this week.
Many Pacific Gas and Electric customers are without power on Sunday as planned de-energizations start over critical fire weather.
A Red Flag Warning is already set to go into effect for parts of Solano County, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Sacramento Valley and the entire Central Valley by Saturday.
As thunderstorms move through the Sacramento area, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District says there are scattered outages.
Pacific Gas and Electric says progress is being made in restoring power in Northern California's El Dorado County. Crews are taking advantage of the break in the weather to work in full force on restoration.
Tens of thousands of people were without power on Thursday.
There was a 1-acre grass fire near River Plaza Drive, the fire department said.
The utility company said the power outages were reported at 7:13 a.m., and that about 8,500 customers were without power.
Rising temperatures mean more air conditioning. For hundreds of residents in Lathrop, they had to sweat it out over this weekend's high heat.
A Rancho Cordova company is developing battery backup devices that activate automatically during blackouts.
Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers were without power Wednesday morning following a new round of public safety outages because of high winds and low humidity.
Tens of thousands of PG&E customers are in the dark as critical fire danger weather moves into Northern and Central California.
PG&E says they expect around 20,000 customers to be affected by the power shutoffs.
At least 17 people are dead as a result of Hurricane Milton, officials told CBS News.
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As PG&E struggles to keep the power on during a record-setting heat wave, the problem hit close to home for one neighborhood in San Ramon.
More than 2,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers in Northern California began their day Wednesday without power after the utility turned off electricity to high fire-risk areas amid a prolonged heat wave.
Originally, PG&E was expecting some 12,000 customers to have their power turned off on Tuesday.
An emergency shelter opened Friday night in Tuolumne County as thousands were without power during a cold spring storm.
More than 27,000 PG&E customers were without power in Solano County Thursday afternoon, according to the PG&E outage map.
