Month, creating a large economic dent for residents and businesses. The historic swiss hotel has been in hank mariones family for decades, but he cant seem to recall anything like this happening in years past. For the second time this month his business could lose power. Youre talking about thousands of dollars a day. During the first Public Safety power shutoff, he had to throw out meat, fish and poultry. Marione lost his home in the tubbs fire two years ago. He says he gets it, but questions why pg e officials shut off power as broadly as they did. I dont really have a problem with them shutting down up in the hills where the winds were 40, 50 miles an hour. But in town i dont believe there is a lot that can burn. Pg e has said its transmission grid is so complicated, it cant isolate smaller areas. Sonoma county First District supervisor susan goren. They should have been on this from decades ago, undergrounding lines, setting the transition grid as they have been doing in Southern C
Into our Service Territory around wednesday and thursday, mainly in the sierra foothills and northbay. Operation center is not just a bunch of computers. Actually have a lot of people in the field. 26 crews that practice the 3ss. Safety, including suppression of fires, switching, between sparks can happen and they are on standby to put those out if they happen, and finally, seeing, reporting back the actual conditions on the grounds of these folks here, who then alerts the Emergency Operations center. Reporter it is here that the decisions are made where and when to have shutdowns. Check this out, cal fires history of fires in the last quarter of the year, seven of californias worst fires occurred in the last quarter. 14 of the 20 deadliest fires also came in the last quarter, and 17 of the most destructive wildfires also came in the last quarter. So, whether the last shutdown was poorly handled, the risk is all too real. We learned a lot from the last Public Safety power shut off and
Gate. Mid40s to mid50s and milder this afternoon. Frances, a lot going on on the roads. Two Traffic Alerts right now. A couple spots you need to avoid this morning. Coolidge. Oakland westbound 580 overturned crash, multiple vehicles involved. A person may have been hit. Two right lanes will be blocked. And then we have a second sig alert on the peninsula. Southbound 101 as you make your way to redwood city. Apparently it was reported as a person walking in the lanes and was hit by a car. A sig alert issued. 280 is your alternate. Shutting off power in 30 counties up and down california tomorrow and on thursday including the bay area. Unless the forecast changes, customers in three east bay cities and napa county will be shut off. This could spread to include much more of us. It would cover every bay area. Its a good idea to charge your phones and electronics now. If you have an external Battery Charge that, too. Fill up on gas. In the south bay nearly 40,000 could be affected. Pg e is
Good morning and thank you for joining us on mornings on 2. Thursday, october 24. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. We are starting with breaking news. A fastmoving wildfire pushed by powerful wind fcing mandatory evacuations east of geyserville in northeast in Sonoma County. Crews say the fire is burning at a dangerous rate. We will check in in just a moment. Cristina rendon is in that area. We will check on the weather. And it could actually get windier when the sun comes up. Is going to start decreasing. We talked to a sergeant up there. He said he saw 60 and ive seen that. It will be 3040 around 1500 feet up to 3000 feet or 4000 feet. Alms all observations are showing low humidity. The temperatures are warm. Read ranch, 1300 feet. Not selena west has gusted 58. The last i saw was 45. Some may be coming down a bit but still Strong Enough and you are getting a northerly direction or northeast. Windsor has a north east at 12. There is a north, northwest throughout much of napa county. North
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