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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 ....
Embers pick them up. although today is not terribly windy. so firefighters were trying to build containment lines before the winds pick up tomorrow. but however, they are still at 5%. one thing that was technically noteworthy. you hear 2.5 million people possib possible could be without power this weekend. and there are 850,000 customers affected. they equate a customer with a household, and typically, there s three people in a household. you do the math, you can get up to 2.5 million people impacted by this. we haven t seen anything like this with voluntary shutoffs of power because of the conditions. this is unprecedented. let s point out that the kincaid fire started at an area where they had the distribution lines. and there was a malfunction with a jumper cable on one of the ....