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if you re wondering what that is, so are we. and just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. he says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. we know that it was broken. we also know according to johnson that this is a 43-year-old tower that had been inspected four times. now as you said, this transmission line was not de-energized, and johnson explained why not. transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. in other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. we didn t see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. and so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. the utility turned off power in the area at 9:48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. pg&e is working closel
KumasiAshantiGhanaStanfordCaliforniaUnited-statesFremontNew-yorkAlexander-valleyOaklandRedwood-cityFlorida effort to keep these flames from crossing the road. that s the alexander valley below us. this is affecting everybody who lives in sonoma. when they tell you the fire is bearing down and you have to leave your home, it s too close. they were handing out protection masks like halloween candy, and we re still in the north gnat zone. a few miles east, no questions about what might have been. new hot spots lit up in the distance. these are backfires near the river rock casino where flames burned. here s chief matt epstein who knows too much about fires around here to dismiss more trouble. while the weather s in our favor and the winds are blowing the right way we want to, we re preparing for the wind to shift again. reporter: that wind shift he s talking about seems to have begun. if you look at that smoke, it s now blowing in our direction. earlier when we did that interview, it was heading in the opposite direction. this skirmish here has been going on for about an hour. we
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