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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Pacific Gas & Electric said its equipment may have been involved in starting a small wildfire that merged with a massive blaze now threatening homes in the Northern California mountains, a revelation that came Tuesday as the nation s largest utility briefed state regulators on plans to use intentional power shutoffs to try to prevent more fires.
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, Salvador Espinosa sweeps in the kitchen of a Mary s Pizza Shack restaurant during a Pacific Gas & Electric power shutdown in Santa Rosa, Calif. California utility regulators will hear from the state s largest electricity providers over steps taken to mitigate the use of planned power shutoffs, which regulators say should be used only as a last resort to prevent wildfires sparking from utility equipment
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Wildfire outlook continues to worsen for Western US
Wildfire outlook continues to worsen for Western US
Though we may need help later, the Governor s Office of Emergency services just announced it s sending additional California mutual aid crews to Oregon to help battle the relentless and every growing Bootleg Fire. KTVU s Tom Vacar reports.
OAKLAND, Calif - The Federal agency that coordinates wildfire mutual aid among the states has now sent out a warning that resources are getting thinly stretched. It officially reset readiness to the highest level of preparedness. That means that we are bracing to see how Mother Nature s different kind of wildfires will confront us.