That corresponds to the winds. But the power would be turned off several hours before the winds. Everyone needs to get prepared today and before tomorrow afternoon. Pg and e customers are being told this outage could last at least several days. It could be shorter, and hopeful loi hopefully it will be. This is to prevent another catastrophic wildfire, as you get a look at the conditions here from sky 7. Its just impossible to contend with, and youre dealing with this both in Northern California as well as Southern California, where they have raging fires down there as well. Right. This is the kincaid fire, which has burned, certainly, a lot. It exploded overnight again, its now at 21,000 acres. And we have 49 structures that have been destroyed. We know that 21 are homes and 28 are outbuildings or i should say were, because they are no more. And you can see the spot fires. They keep spreading as the
embers pick them up. Although today is not terribly windy. So firefighters were trying
transmission towers. tomorrow with the winds picking up again and possibly even worse than what we ve seen already earlier this week, we can certainly have more shutoffs, and the idea is to prevent another such fire. you re seeing pg and e officials now. public information officer for this current psps event. thank you for being here tonight. we ve already covered safety in the room. so thank you. additionally, i would just remind us, we re in earthquake country as well as wildfire country. we ve seen that. make sure you take care of yourself, duck, cover and hold for earthquakes and also good resources at wildfire safety.pge.com. to help be prepared for psps events as well as wildfires. i m going to introduce our lineup and talk about the upcoming weekend event. so we have our first presenter
tonight will becott strenfeld, our meteorologist, an update on the weather. our current incident commander will give us an update on where we stand with the current 1023 psps event we re wrapping up right now. sameet singh will give us an update into early next week and final comments from our ceo and president of pacific gas and electric company. so with that, i m going to turn it over to scott right now now all right, thank you, keith. thank you. so we are able to issue the all-clear pour tfor the october psps event in kern county, so from a meteorological perspective, that event has concluded. unfortunately, we are eyeing mother event on the horizon. we do remain stuck in a, what we call an atmospheric blocking
corporation, who is normally here at the podium has the evening off. we try to support each other. these are long events. 24 hours on. we re working hard and it it s important that we try to model the right behavior. so i m spelling him this evening and will be giving comments in his stead. so, as you heard from mark, we have restored nearly all of the customers who were affected by this week s psps. with the exception of those in snow makoun at this who are impacted by the kincaid fire as it s not yet safe to do so. we are supporting first responders who are fighting to bring that fire under control, and we thank them for their courage, dedication and putting themselves in harm s way. we also recognize the pain, fear and anxiety of those who have lost property to the fire or who have evacuated their homes and businesses to get out of its