Dec. 28 SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to establish a local emergency due to the atmospheric river storm that stalled out over Santa Cruz County on Dec. 13 and triggered evacuations and landslides amounting to $3.1 million in damage.
The rains also set loose t
Whack and stack: PG&E’s toppling of trees creates new hazards
PG&E is leaving down trees on people s property that are little firebombs waiting to ignite, an expert says, as the utility removes trees from powerlines. Author: Julie Cart (CalMatters) Updated: 3:27 PM PST December 18, 2020
Kristi and Brian Anderson have some thoughts about how the first year of California’s “get-tough-on-utilities” approach to preventing wildfires is going: Badly. Very badly.
The Andersons, who live in Bonny Doon, nestled in the mountains near Santa Cruz, lost their home four months ago in the CZU Lighting Complex fires.
But their plight only got worse after the fires were out. They returned to their property to find that Pacific Gas and Electric crews had felled 20 trees on their two-acre lot, toppling hundred-foot Douglas firs and leaving them where they fell.