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In 2020, California had over 9,900 wildfires, which burned a record 4.25 million acres and killed 33 people, according to the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire). It is time for California to rethink its approach to wildfires, stakeholders said.
Both wildfires and utility-owned power lines run throughout California’s federally-, state- and privately-held forest lands. Regulated utilities have caused less than 10% of California s wildfires, according to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), but a California constitutional provision makes utilities financially liable if their equipment is involved in, without causing, a fire’s ignition.
As a result, the state’s three dominant investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and their customers have incurred costs for fires involving their equipment on lands where public agencies efforts to avoid fires has been inadeq
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Southern California Edison Crews replace power lines in Camarillo with ones which are better able to withstand extreme fire danger conditions
Utility has been working on multiple projects to address issue in Ventura, Santa Barbara Counties
It was an effort to prevent the dangerous combination of extreme wildfire conditions, and power lines from creating another monster blaze like the Thomas, or Woolsey Fires. But, for Joann Chee of Moorpark, and her family, it meant a wild scramble one day last year to cope with an intentional, yet still unexpected power outage.
Chee says they received a notice that a Southern California Edison Pubic Safety Power Shutoff was a possibility, but says they were still caught off guard when it actually happened. They ended up losing some of their refrigerated food. Chee says her husband, who was working at home because of the pandemic, had to go to the San Fernando Valley and work from his mother s house.