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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duffey said that the outages should be “relatively short-lived” and emphasized that “this is a very targeted and small area that we’re concerned with.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>PG&E said it initiates the shutoffs when severe weather conditions pose a significant fire threat, even if the weather appears calm. Power lines often travel through different regions, and the line serving one community may pass through a higher-risk area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Steven Torrence, Marin County’s director of emergency management, urged residents to sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/sign-alertmarin\">AlertMarin\u003c/a> to stay prepared. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said that the county, in coordination with PG&E, is operating a community resource center for affected residents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence added that the last time the county experienced a planned outage like this one was back in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778499/pge-eyeing-massive-power-shutoffs-across-northern-california-due-to-extreme-weather-concerns\">2019\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said that because the 2019 planned outage was likely one of the first that PG&E conducted in Marin County, a lot of people actually remember it. He added that the outage lasted for several days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since then, according to Torrence, the county has been working with PG&E to reduce the impact of these planned outages. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This outage is not projected to last past 10 a.m. on Thursday, said Torrence, and it’s possible that the power may not go off at all. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Regardless of what happens, Torrence reminded residents that wildfire season is now year-round. He encouraged people to check in on their neighbors — especially older residents — to see if they need support preparing for any emergencies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ninathorsen\">\u003cem>Nina Thorsen\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837014/regresan-los-apagones-de-pge-aqui-lo-que-tiene-que-saber-sobre-los-cortes-de-energia\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a Red Flag Warning warning set to go into effect from midday Tuesday through Thursday morning for most of the Bay Area and the higher elevations of the Central Coast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995060/california-fire-danger-could-cause-pge-power-outages-election-night\">PG&E says approximately 15,000 customers across 17 counties are likely to temporarily lose power\u003c/a> due to planned shutoffs starting at 7 p.m. on Election Day as high winds and low humidity create critical fire weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, PG&E says high-elevation areas in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma counties are at risk of power outages. The Santa Cruz Mountains and other high wildfire-risk areas through Butte County could also see shut-offs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jump straight to:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#prepare\">How do I prepare my home for a power shutoff?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1950931/map-potential-pge-power-outage-wednesday\">Real-time PG&E power outage map (opens new page)\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>During wildfire season, there are a few reasons your power might go out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unplanned outages are often caused by high winds affecting power lines — the kind of weather which contributes to the outbreak and spread of wildfires, especially when paired with very dry conditions, a combination which typically prompts the National Weather Service to \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/wrh/CAFW\">issue a Red Flag Warning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red Flag Warnings, especially when issued over large areas, can prompt utilities to enact planned power outages in an effort to keep damaged power lines from sparking fires. Such planned power outages will be determined by your utility company or power grid operator. Keep reading for how to find out the latest on any PG&E plans to shut off your power, and how you can prepare for life without electricity for several hours — or days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1950931]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will I know about a planned power outage in my area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Utilities are supposed to notify emergency responders of a potential power shutoff 48 to 72 hours in advance, and to notify regular customers who have signed up for alerts somewhere between 24 and 48 hours beforehand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sign up to get notifications direct from PG&E\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be notified of a planned shutoff in your area — what PG&E calls a “public safety power shutoff,” or PSPS — you can:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/your-account/account-management/manage-your-account/alerts-and-notifications/update-your-contact-information.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Update your contact information online\u003c/a> with PG&E, or call (866) 743-6589 to update your information by phone and request to receive notifications\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://pge.com/myalerts\">pge.com/myalerts\u003c/a>, where you can also create an online PG&E account, or calll (800) 743-5000 or the California Relay Service at 711\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>PG&E says you can choose to receive alerts in one of 16 languages, including English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Punjabi and Farsi. General notification messaging in American Sign Language is also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the initial alert(s), PG&E should also send you follow-up messages a few hours before a shutoff begins, and again during the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Check for PG&E power shutoff information online\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t want to receive notifications, you can also proactively \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/public-safety-event.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check PG&E’s online shutoff information on their website,\u003c/a> to see the most recent updates about any planned outages near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"prepare\">\u003c/a>How can I prepare for a power shutoff?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After an alert about a potential power shutoff, PG&E says that the utility’s “goal is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support/your-guide-to-public-safety-power-shutoffs.pdf\">restore power within 24 hours after dry, windy conditions have passed.\u003c/a>” But if a power shutoff affects a large number of customers, it can take multiple days for the utility to do safety checks and get the power turned back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11833686\"]In some cases, if possible, you might consider staying with family or friends during the outage to pool resources. If you have medical needs that rely on power, consider planning which family members or friends you can stay with during a lengthy power outage. You might also talk to your doctor in advance about how to prepare with medications or mobility needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preparing for an emergency takes time and money — something many of us have in short supply. If it’s something you feel you have the time and the budget for, you could consider buying two sets of the items listed below and coordinating with a neighbor in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things to have close at hand before a potential power outage:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Battery-powered flashlights, ideally one for every household member\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A supply of fresh batteries, including extras for any medical devices that require electricity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Portable chargers or battery packs to keep your mobile phone charged\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>LED candles, instead of wax candles, are recommended by PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A battery-powered radio to hear updates on fire conditions and outages\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nonperishable food (think canned goods) and water: The state recommends having enough food and water for every member of your household for three days (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s what we suggest goes in an emergency bag\u003c/a> in case you have to evacuate your home because of wildfire)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A thermometer to make sure your food is safe to eat (more on that below)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A list of emergency contacts prepared\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Make sure you know exactly where these crucial items are, so you’re not scrambling to find them in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other things to do ahead of an outage, if you have time:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully charge your cellphone and any portable chargers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get cash, as ATMs may not work during a power outage\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Top your vehicle up with a full tank of gas (similarly, gas stations may not be operational during an outage)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fill up plastic containers with water and store them in your freezer, which you can use later as ice substitutes to keep food fresh\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Additionally, make sure you and your household all know:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>How to manually open any door in your home or building that requires electricity (think garage doors, apartment complex doors that require key cards)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How you’ll communicate in an emergency situation, and not depend on a phone that needs electricity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How you’ll operate a generator, if you have one — check ahead of time that the one you have works, and make sure you know \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/electrical-safety/electric-generator-safety/electric-generator-safety.page\">how to use it safely and eliminate the risk of carbon-monoxide poisoning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Which of your neighbors might need extra assistance during a power shutoff, or even just appreciate you checking in\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where can I find additional support during a power shutoff?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During planned shutoffs, PG&E opens daytime, drop-in \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Resource Centers\u003c/a>, or CRCs, offering ADA-accessible restrooms and hand-washing stations, medical equipment and device charging, Wi-Fi, bottled water, snacks, air-conditioning or heating, seating and ice. \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Search for a PG&E Community Resource Center in your county here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disabled and older people can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/independent-living-centers.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call 211\u003c/a> or text “PSPS” to 211211 to access local health and social services including medical support, shelter and food. Support is available in multiple languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/portable-battery-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portable Battery Program\u003c/a> provides free backup portable batteries for those with life-assisting electric medical equipment who also are enrolled in their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medical Baseline Program\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Alternate Rates for Energy\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Family Electric Rate Assistance\u003c/a> programs, and who live in \u003ca href=\"https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/firemap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high fire-threat districts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks who rely on power to live independently can access portable backup batteries, hotel accommodations, accessible transportation and food vouchers through the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers’ \u003ca href=\"https://disabilitydisasteraccess.org/get-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disability Disaster Access and Resources program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do during a power shutoff?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once the power is off, keep in mind that emergency responders may be dealing with their own backup power needs and any emergency medical situations that come up. Do not call 911 unless it’s an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, infrastructure such as traffic lights may be affected — so proceed with caution. In the past, San José has asked residents to avoid driving if the power is shut off and to stop at dark signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Turn off (almost) all your appliances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your power goes out, be sure to unplug or turn off any appliances and equipment to prevent damage from surges when the power is restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E recommends keeping one lamp turned to the on position, to alert you when power has returned. You can then turn each appliance back on one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep your food safe and edible during an outage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once your power is out, be especially purposeful about when you open your freezer or your refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A refrigerator that loses power can keep food cold for about four hours, and a freezer for about 48 hours, \u003cem>if\u003c/em> they’re kept closed. Plan to rely on coolers with ice or any water-filled plastic containers you’ve frozen ahead of time (and remember: Ice is available free at your county’s \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Resource Center\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state recommends that during an outage, you monitor food temperatures with a thermometer — and throw out any food that has a temperature of 40 degrees or higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re opting to use a camp stove or a grill in the absence of your oven or microwave, you should only use these appliances outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re without power for more than 48 hours, you may qualify for compensation from PG&E. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Read more about the PG&E Safety Net program\u003c/a>, which offers these payments due to “severe events, like storms”, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944877/power-outages-claim-lost-food\">get more information about claiming back the costs of spoiled food after an outage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power will be restored after the dangerous conditions have passed and once safety checks have been done for all the lines in that area. If there are a large number of people who have had their power shut off, then it may take multiple days before PG&E gets the power turned back on for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you experience a loss due to extended power outages — such as the food in your fridge going bad — you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">file a claim\u003c/a> with the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"why\">\u003c/a>Why are these PG&E public safety power shutoffs happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The deadliest wildfire in state history — the 2018 Camp Fire — swept through the community of Paradise and killed 85 people. That fire was ignited by PG&E power lines amid strong winds and tinder-dry conditions. To guard against similarly devastating new wildfires and new liability, in 2019 PG&E began preemptive power shutoffs when conditions are exceptionally dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2019, the California Public Utilities Commission \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M339/K524/339524880.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved rules for how the state’s major utilities should preemptively shut off the power\u003c/a> during times of high fire danger. However, some utilities, such as San Diego Gas and Electric, had been shutting off the power to help prevent fires for years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How are shutoffs different from rolling blackouts?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Californians also lose power because of strains on the system. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Independent System Operator\u003c/a> (ISO) manages the delicate balance of power supply and demand on the state’s electrical grid and can order utilities to cut power to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one big interconnected system,” said John Phipps, an operations director with California ISO. “Energy being generated at one plant can feed homes completely on the other end of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Phipps said, “if Diablo Canyon had problems in Northern California, that could impact San Diego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story published on Sept. 8, 2020.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will I know about a planned power outage in my area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Utilities are supposed to notify emergency responders of a potential power shutoff 48 to 72 hours in advance, and to notify regular customers who have signed up for alerts somewhere between 24 and 48 hours beforehand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sign up to get notifications direct from PG&E\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be notified of a planned shutoff in your area — what PG&E calls a “public safety power shutoff,” or PSPS — you can:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/your-account/account-management/manage-your-account/alerts-and-notifications/update-your-contact-information.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Update your contact information online\u003c/a> with PG&E, or call (866) 743-6589 to update your information by phone and request to receive notifications\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://pge.com/myalerts\">pge.com/myalerts\u003c/a>, where you can also create an online PG&E account, or calll (800) 743-5000 or the California Relay Service at 711\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>PG&E says you can choose to receive alerts in one of 16 languages, including English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Punjabi and Farsi. General notification messaging in American Sign Language is also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the initial alert(s), PG&E should also send you follow-up messages a few hours before a shutoff begins, and again during the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Check for PG&E power shutoff information online\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t want to receive notifications, you can also proactively \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/public-safety-event.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check PG&E’s online shutoff information on their website,\u003c/a> to see the most recent updates about any planned outages near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In some cases, if possible, you might consider staying with family or friends during the outage to pool resources. If you have medical needs that rely on power, consider planning which family members or friends you can stay with during a lengthy power outage. You might also talk to your doctor in advance about how to prepare with medications or mobility needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preparing for an emergency takes time and money — something many of us have in short supply. If it’s something you feel you have the time and the budget for, you could consider buying two sets of the items listed below and coordinating with a neighbor in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things to have close at hand before a potential power outage:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Battery-powered flashlights, ideally one for every household member\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A supply of fresh batteries, including extras for any medical devices that require electricity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Portable chargers or battery packs to keep your mobile phone charged\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>LED candles, instead of wax candles, are recommended by PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A battery-powered radio to hear updates on fire conditions and outages\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nonperishable food (think canned goods) and water: The state recommends having enough food and water for every member of your household for three days (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s what we suggest goes in an emergency bag\u003c/a> in case you have to evacuate your home because of wildfire)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A thermometer to make sure your food is safe to eat (more on that below)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A list of emergency contacts prepared\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Make sure you know exactly where these crucial items are, so you’re not scrambling to find them in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other things to do ahead of an outage, if you have time:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully charge your cellphone and any portable chargers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get cash, as ATMs may not work during a power outage\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Top your vehicle up with a full tank of gas (similarly, gas stations may not be operational during an outage)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fill up plastic containers with water and store them in your freezer, which you can use later as ice substitutes to keep food fresh\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Additionally, make sure you and your household all know:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>How to manually open any door in your home or building that requires electricity (think garage doors, apartment complex doors that require key cards)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How you’ll communicate in an emergency situation, and not depend on a phone that needs electricity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How you’ll operate a generator, if you have one — check ahead of time that the one you have works, and make sure you know \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/electrical-safety/electric-generator-safety/electric-generator-safety.page\">how to use it safely and eliminate the risk of carbon-monoxide poisoning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Which of your neighbors might need extra assistance during a power shutoff, or even just appreciate you checking in\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where can I find additional support during a power shutoff?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During planned shutoffs, PG&E opens daytime, drop-in \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Resource Centers\u003c/a>, or CRCs, offering ADA-accessible restrooms and hand-washing stations, medical equipment and device charging, Wi-Fi, bottled water, snacks, air-conditioning or heating, seating and ice. \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Search for a PG&E Community Resource Center in your county here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disabled and older people can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/independent-living-centers.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call 211\u003c/a> or text “PSPS” to 211211 to access local health and social services including medical support, shelter and food. Support is available in multiple languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/portable-battery-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portable Battery Program\u003c/a> provides free backup portable batteries for those with life-assisting electric medical equipment who also are enrolled in their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medical Baseline Program\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Alternate Rates for Energy\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Family Electric Rate Assistance\u003c/a> programs, and who live in \u003ca href=\"https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/firemap/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high fire-threat districts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks who rely on power to live independently can access portable backup batteries, hotel accommodations, accessible transportation and food vouchers through the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers’ \u003ca href=\"https://disabilitydisasteraccess.org/get-services/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disability Disaster Access and Resources program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do during a power shutoff?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once the power is off, keep in mind that emergency responders may be dealing with their own backup power needs and any emergency medical situations that come up. Do not call 911 unless it’s an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, infrastructure such as traffic lights may be affected — so proceed with caution. In the past, San José has asked residents to avoid driving if the power is shut off and to stop at dark signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Turn off (almost) all your appliances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your power goes out, be sure to unplug or turn off any appliances and equipment to prevent damage from surges when the power is restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E recommends keeping one lamp turned to the on position, to alert you when power has returned. You can then turn each appliance back on one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep your food safe and edible during an outage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once your power is out, be especially purposeful about when you open your freezer or your refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A refrigerator that loses power can keep food cold for about four hours, and a freezer for about 48 hours, \u003cem>if\u003c/em> they’re kept closed. Plan to rely on coolers with ice or any water-filled plastic containers you’ve frozen ahead of time (and remember: Ice is available free at your county’s \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Resource Center\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state recommends that during an outage, you monitor food temperatures with a thermometer — and throw out any food that has a temperature of 40 degrees or higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re opting to use a camp stove or a grill in the absence of your oven or microwave, you should only use these appliances outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re without power for more than 48 hours, you may qualify for compensation from PG&E. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Read more about the PG&E Safety Net program\u003c/a>, which offers these payments due to “severe events, like storms”, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944877/power-outages-claim-lost-food\">get more information about claiming back the costs of spoiled food after an outage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power will be restored after the dangerous conditions have passed and once safety checks have been done for all the lines in that area. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A fire danger warning was set to take effect in Northern California late Tuesday due to strong winds and low humidity, prompting Pacific Gas & Electric to warn roughly 8,500 customers their power could be shut off in an effort to prevent a wildfire from starting if wires are downed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire warnings were set to take effect in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/public-safety-power-shuttoff/psps-7day-forecast.page\">much of the Sacramento Valley and in portions of adjacent Lake County\u003c/a>, the National Weather Service said Monday. Such warnings come when warm temperatures, low humidity, gusty winds and exceptionally dry fuels are anticipated, which can lead to large wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of power shutoffs surfaced in Hawaii after the deadly fire that destroyed the Maui community of Lahaina. Maui County claims Hawaiian Electric Company \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/maui-hawaii-wildfires-electric-utility-c3513c2f8e451df6dab2e59a6c2f670d\">negligently failed to cut power\u003c/a> despite high winds and dry conditions. The utility acknowledges its lines started the fire but \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wildfires-maui-electricity-power-utilities-1741e22bbf955b62103db6b60f5c4853\">faults county firefighters\u003c/a> for declaring the blaze contained and leaving the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This time, the utility was able to reduce the impact of possible power cuts after it added more circuit switches to its grid, allowing it to more precisely determine which customers will lose power, said Paul Moreno, a PG&E spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also added hundreds of weather stations in areas prone to wildfires that provide information on when fire conditions are present and when those conditions have passed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has so far avoided widespread wildfires this year following an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-snowpack-flooding-threat-65919716df94054d3ff7c849bf60f142\">extraordinarily wet winter\u003c/a> and cool spring that melted the mountain snowpack slowly. Downpours from recent \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d\">Tropical Storm Hilary\u003c/a> further dampened much of the southern half of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were fortunate to have a wet year,” Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/northern-california-wildfire-evacuations-9bfba7e1c43aedb040d4c153ce3789a2\">In California, major fires\u003c/a> have been limited to the southeastern desert and the lightly populated far northwest near the Oregon border where lightning ignited many fires this month. The largest group, the Smith River Complex, has scorched more than 115 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#claimoutage\">How to get reimbursed after a power outage\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">recent run of storms in the Bay Area\u003c/a> has brought high winds and downed trees — which has meant a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of power outages for people across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big way that losing power can affect you, your household \u003cem>and\u003c/em> your finances: When your fridge and your freezer shut down for an extended period, much of your fresh food ends up spoiled and unsafe to eat. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2021/08/18/avoid-foodborne-illness-during-temporary-power-outages#:~:text=4%2DHour%20Window%3A%20Your%20refrigerator,food%20to%20determine%20its%20safety.\">Food safety guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a> explicitly state that a refrigerator without power will only keep food safe to eat for up to four hours during a power outage, and that after that you should “discard refrigerated perishable food,” specifically meat, poultry, fish, eggs and leftovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when food costs keep rising and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">food benefits are about to drop\u003c/a>, losing a fridge or freezer’s worth of food can mean a serious loss for a home that’s trying to make every dollar stretch. If this happened to you, you’re by no means alone, says Mark Toney, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">The Utility Reform Network (TURN)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard a lot of complaints from people who, because of these storms, because the electricity lines have been brought down by trees, that absolutely — they were without power for a day, two days, and lost everything in their refrigerator,” said Toney. “What’s hard is … [holding] the utility company responsible for some of these weather events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the good news is, there \u003cem>are\u003c/em> avenues available to potentially claim back the costs of food you lost due to a shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-so-good news: These routes aren’t always simple or guaranteed to work. But they do exist, so keep reading for what you should know about trying to claim compensation for spoiled food.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What you need to know about claiming the costs of spoiled food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can try to clam compensation from two sources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E, your utility provider; or,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your insurance provider, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For claiming compensation, it matters what kind of outage you were affected by — that is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What caused the outage: whether it was a weather event, like a storm, or a mistake by PG&E; and,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How long the outage was.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In any case, seeking compensation from either PG&E or your insurance provider may prove time-consuming and potentially confusing, and isn’t necessarily guaranteed to result in a payment. But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Keep reading for the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"claimoutage\">\u003c/a>How to claim compensation directly from PG&E\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>PG&E generally has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/faq/outage-compensation-faqs.page\">two routes for getting compensated\u003c/a> for lost food during an outage: the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">regular claims process\u003c/a>, and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Safety Net program\u003c/a>, which automatically provides Storm Inconvenience Payments. The process you choose depends on what caused your outage and how long you were without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking compensation through Storm Inconvenience Payments from PG&E’s Safety Net program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, the Safety Net program is intended to compensate customers who experience outages caused by weather, through an automatic Storm Inconvenience Payment — but the outage \u003cem>must\u003c/em> have lasted 48 hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How it’s meant to work: PG&E says that if your household is affected by a power outage that lasts for two days or longer, its Safety Net program will pay “$25 to $100 automatically 60 to 120 days after the outage.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Tip: If you were affected by an outage of 48 hours or more, put a reminder on your calendar for four months’ time — by that time you should have received an automatic PG&E Storm Inconvenience Payment.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should not have to do anything to receive this payment, or actively make a claim, but if four months have passed with no sign of your Storm Inconvenience Payment, you can call PG&E’s extended outage line at (888) PGE-4PGE (1-888-743-4743).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment is tiered according to how long your outage lasted, and your bill will be credited $25 for every 24-hour period you’ve been without power — but only after you’ve been without power for 24 hours:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>48–72 hours (i.e., 2–3 days): $25 payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>72–96 hours (i.e., 3–4 days): $50 payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>96–120 hours (i.e., 4–5 days): $75 payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>120 hours or more (i.e., 5 days or longer): $100 payment, maximum\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Businesses, agricultural accounts, multifamily-building common areas, streetlights “and all other non-residential accounts” are not eligible to receive Storm Inconvenience Payments, even if the outage was 48 hour or longer. Clients who experienced what PG&E call a public safety power shutoff (PSPS) during a period of high wildfire risk also don’t qualify for these payments. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Read more about what’s \u003cem>not\u003c/em> covered by a Storm Inconvenience Payment\u003c/a> under PG&E’s Safety Net program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claiming compensation through PG&E’s regular claims process\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/customer-service/help/claims/form_lossclaim.pdf\">file a compensation claim for specific damages caused by a power outage using the form linked here (PDF)\u003c/a>. You can claim back the costs of spoiled food but also expenses related to a personal injury, property damage and lost wages. But according to PG&E, the outage \u003cem>cannot\u003c/em> have been caused by weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This form states that “generally speaking, PG&E is responsible for damages that result from its negligence” but also adds that the company is “not responsible for damages that we do not cause or that are the result of forces beyond our control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s beyond PG&E’s control? According to the utility company, outages that are “caused by earthquakes [or] weather conditions (such as lightning, floods, heavy storms, extreme heat or winds).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Guides from KQED' tag='kqed-guides']\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">You can submit a claim to PG&E online, by email, by fax or by mail.\u003c/a> This process will ask you for a lot of documentation, including photographs of the spoiled food, so be sure to take photos before you toss anything. You’ll also be asked for receipts for the food. If you do not have receipts for all the food you lost, you \u003cem>could\u003c/em> try to submit the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Receipts for any replacement food you had to buy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Screenshots from your grocery’s store website that shows the specific food items lost with their prices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An online receipt, if you have a membership or an account with the store you purchased your food from that tracks your purchases (for example, Target Circle).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>PG&E says they assess food spoilage complaints based on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">USDA guidelines regarding how long food stays cold\u003c/a>. Those guidelines say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully stocked freezers usually keep food frozen for two days after losing power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Half-full freezers usually keep food frozen for about one day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refrigerators usually keep food cold for up to four hours if the door remains unopened.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This means that you probably won’t be able to claim compensation for, say, a half-full freezer that had no power for half a day — or for the contents of a fully stocked freezer that lost power for one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The outage that spoiled my food was during the storms, but it lasted less than 48 hours. What do I do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, PG&E does not provide a clear option for claiming compensation — even though those \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2021/08/18/avoid-foodborne-illness-during-temporary-power-outages#:~:text=4%2DHour%20Window%3A%20Your%20refrigerator,food%20to%20determine%20its%20safety.\">USDA food safety guidelines make clear that food in a refrigerator that’s been without power for over four hours\u003c/a> is no longer safe to eat, and perishable foods should be discarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, when asked to clarify whether someone affected by storm-related food spoilage should \u003cem>only\u003c/em> wait for a Storm Inconvenience Payment and not \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">apply for compensation through PG&E’s claims portal\u003c/a>, PG&E spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian told KQED in an email that “[w]e look at each and every claim that comes through, and make decisions on an individual basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this in mind, you may decide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">file a claim directly through PG&E’s claims portal anyway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to claim compensation directly from your insurer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have renters insurance or homeowners insurance, your policy \u003cem>may\u003c/em> cover the loss of food due to an outage. Like \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">filing a claim directly through PG&E\u003c/a>, you’ll most likely have to provide documentation and evidence of food spoilage, so take photos of your food before you throw it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this isn’t guaranteed, and you’ll need to either contact your insurer directly to inquire, or consult your policy details.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Tip: Before you throw out food, be sure to take photos of it, in your fridge and outside it.[/pullquote]Mark Toney of \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">TURN\u003c/a> also recommends being aware of the potential consequences of claiming for spoiled food on your insurance: Make sure you’re aware of the amount of the deductible you’d have to pay to receive a payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only that, but “just remember that there’s a trade-off,” cautions Toney. “Insurance companies have been known to increase premiums after a claim.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If you’ve lost your food due to outages and can’t buy more right now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your food has spoiled in your fridge or your freezer, and you are finding it difficult to replace it and secure food for your household, you have options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do#foodsupport\">our guide to finding food assistance near you\u003c/a>, from food banks and community pantries to options for picking up free or low-cost groceries in your county. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#claimoutage\">How to get reimbursed after a power outage\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">recent run of storms in the Bay Area\u003c/a> has brought high winds and downed trees — which has meant a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of power outages for people across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big way that losing power can affect you, your household \u003cem>and\u003c/em> your finances: When your fridge and your freezer shut down for an extended period, much of your fresh food ends up spoiled and unsafe to eat. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2021/08/18/avoid-foodborne-illness-during-temporary-power-outages#:~:text=4%2DHour%20Window%3A%20Your%20refrigerator,food%20to%20determine%20its%20safety.\">Food safety guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a> explicitly state that a refrigerator without power will only keep food safe to eat for up to four hours during a power outage, and that after that you should “discard refrigerated perishable food,” specifically meat, poultry, fish, eggs and leftovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when food costs keep rising and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">food benefits are about to drop\u003c/a>, losing a fridge or freezer’s worth of food can mean a serious loss for a home that’s trying to make every dollar stretch. If this happened to you, you’re by no means alone, says Mark Toney, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">The Utility Reform Network (TURN)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard a lot of complaints from people who, because of these storms, because the electricity lines have been brought down by trees, that absolutely — they were without power for a day, two days, and lost everything in their refrigerator,” said Toney. “What’s hard is … [holding] the utility company responsible for some of these weather events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the good news is, there \u003cem>are\u003c/em> avenues available to potentially claim back the costs of food you lost due to a shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-so-good news: These routes aren’t always simple or guaranteed to work. 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Keep reading for the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"claimoutage\">\u003c/a>How to claim compensation directly from PG&E\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>PG&E generally has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/faq/outage-compensation-faqs.page\">two routes for getting compensated\u003c/a> for lost food during an outage: the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">regular claims process\u003c/a>, and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Safety Net program\u003c/a>, which automatically provides Storm Inconvenience Payments. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">You can submit a claim to PG&E online, by email, by fax or by mail.\u003c/a> This process will ask you for a lot of documentation, including photographs of the spoiled food, so be sure to take photos before you toss anything. You’ll also be asked for receipts for the food. If you do not have receipts for all the food you lost, you \u003cem>could\u003c/em> try to submit the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Receipts for any replacement food you had to buy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Screenshots from your grocery’s store website that shows the specific food items lost with their prices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An online receipt, if you have a membership or an account with the store you purchased your food from that tracks your purchases (for example, Target Circle).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>PG&E says they assess food spoilage complaints based on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">USDA guidelines regarding how long food stays cold\u003c/a>. Those guidelines say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully stocked freezers usually keep food frozen for two days after losing power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Half-full freezers usually keep food frozen for about one day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refrigerators usually keep food cold for up to four hours if the door remains unopened.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This means that you probably won’t be able to claim compensation for, say, a half-full freezer that had no power for half a day — or for the contents of a fully stocked freezer that lost power for one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The outage that spoiled my food was during the storms, but it lasted less than 48 hours. What do I do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, PG&E does not provide a clear option for claiming compensation — even though those \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2021/08/18/avoid-foodborne-illness-during-temporary-power-outages#:~:text=4%2DHour%20Window%3A%20Your%20refrigerator,food%20to%20determine%20its%20safety.\">USDA food safety guidelines make clear that food in a refrigerator that’s been without power for over four hours\u003c/a> is no longer safe to eat, and perishable foods should be discarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, when asked to clarify whether someone affected by storm-related food spoilage should \u003cem>only\u003c/em> wait for a Storm Inconvenience Payment and not \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">apply for compensation through PG&E’s claims portal\u003c/a>, PG&E spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian told KQED in an email that “[w]e look at each and every claim that comes through, and make decisions on an individual basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this in mind, you may decide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">file a claim directly through PG&E’s claims portal anyway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It expanded the alert on Friday afternoon to include portions of Sonoma and Napa counties in the northern Bay Area, but didn’t say how many homes could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%;height: 750px;overflow: hidden\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/?type=forecasted\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" style=\"position: relative; top: -160px;\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When heavy winds were predicted earlier this month, PG&E cut power to about 167,000 homes and businesses in Central and Northern California in a more targeted approach after being criticized last year for acting too broadly when it blacked out 2 million customers to prevent fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E equipment has sparked past large wildfires, including the 2018 fire that destroyed much of the Sierra foothills town of Paradise and killed 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RobMayeda/status/1309599283839000576\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies in recent years have linked bigger U.S. wildfires to global warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, especially because climate change has made California much hotter and drier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD810644\">announced Friday\u003c/a> that it is extending the closure of nine national forests in California due to wildfire concerns, and will review the decision on a daily basis. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for 2021 power outages and shutoffs information? Please \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836990/pge-shutoffs-are-here-again-what-to-know-about-power-outages-today\">visit our updated 2021 guide\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two kinds of power outages Californians may be subject to — rolling blackouts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11750896/cpuc-pge-deenergization-wildfire-safety-power-shutoffs\">public safety power shutoffs (PSPS)\u003c/a>. If your lights go out, it may be a decision made by your utility company, like PG&E, or the power grid operators, who keep up the grid in about 80% of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833699/check-out-california-power-outages-in-real-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">power outage map\u003c/a> shows where electricity has been shut off by PG&E and other California utilities\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rolling Blackouts\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California ISO\u003c/a> manages the delicate balance of power supply and demand on the state’s electrical grid, effectively ordering utilities to cut power to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one big interconnected system,” said John Phipps, an operations director with the California ISO. “Energy being generated at one plant can feed homes completely on the other end of the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Phipps says \"if Diablo Canyon had problems in Northern California, that could impact San Diego.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/marincountyfire/status/1303042896212320256\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Public Safety Power Shutoff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PG&E announced a possible planned power shutoff for Monday, Tuesday and possibly Wednesday due to strong and dry offshore winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned power outage may begin Monday evening and could impact approximately 103,000 customers in portions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2020/09/07/amid-extreme-heat-forecasted-offshore-dry-wind-event-means-pge-might-need-to-proactively-turn-off-power-for-safety-in-portions-of-21-counties-mostly-in-the-sierra-foothills/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 counties in the Sierra foothills and North Bay, as well as seven tribes,\u003c/a> according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/juliachanb/status/1303147509573799936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11750455/what-you-need-to-know-about-pges-state-mandated-wildfire-mitigation-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019\u003c/a>, the California Public Utility Commission approved a new set of rules allowing the state's major utilities to preemptively shut off the power during times of high fire danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11834901\"]Public safety power shutoffs are used to reduce the risk of electrical equipment sparking fires during exceedingly windy, dry, hot weather. PG&E had considered shutting off power before the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>. Red flag warnings by the National Weather Service are a good indicator of high risk fire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities are supposed to notify emergency responders of a potential power shutoff 48 to 72 hours in advance and notify regular customers somewhere between 24 to 48 hours beforehand. There should also be follow-up messages a few hours before a shutoff begins and again during the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be notified of a public safety power shutoff in your area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/your-account/account-management/manage-your-account/alerts-and-notifications/update-your-contact-information.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">update your contact information\u003c/a> with PG&E. You can also call them at 1-866-743-6589 to update your contact information and to receive notifications. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/psps-zip-codes.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_pspszipcodealerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up to be notified by ZIP code\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/public-safety-event.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check their website\u003c/a> for the most recent information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is a power shutoff, here's what you need to know\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to do before a power shutoff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11833686\"]After an alert about a potential power shutoff, PG&E suggests preparing to be without power for more than 48 hours. 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You can register for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PG&E's medical baseline program\u003c/a>, if you have a life-assisting medical device, which will qualify you for lower rates and provide you with additional advance notification.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to do during a power shutoff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once the power is off, keep in mind that emergency responders may be dealing with their own backup power needs and any emergency medical situations that come up. Do not call 911 unless it's an emergency. Additionally, infrastructure, such as traffic lights, may be impacted — so proceed with caution. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was co-published with the PBS series \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter sparking a series of deadly fires in Northern California and then shutting off power to millions of people in an attempt to avoid sparking more, Pacific Gas & Electric has started on an ambitious slate of upgrades that it says will drastically reduce the number of new fires sparked by its electrical equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility giant’s leaders have said that transformation may take as long as a decade. But a detailed review of documents and hearings shows that PG&E spent the last 10 years resisting many of those very same reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A FRONTLINE investigation found dozens of instances of such pushback: For instance, the company fought a proposal that it report every fire its equipment caused, describing the measure as an “unnecessary cost” of time and resources in a 2010 filing. The following year, responding to another proposal, its attorneys wrote that “PG&E does not agree that it is necessary to require a formal plan specific to fire prevention.” And for years, the Northern California company argued to regulators that it shouldn’t be held to the same standards as its Southern California counterparts, saying wind-driven fire risk in its territory was significantly lower than in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These battles unfolded mainly within a little-publicized proceeding overseen by its regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission. In recent years, the commission has monitored the utilities’ fire safety more aggressively. But from 2008 to 2018, even as it wrote rules aimed at reducing utility wildfires, the commission didn’t have a single staff member who specialized in wildfire prevention. During that period, according to three former employees, the commission was hamstrung by too few enforcement officers and distracted by simultaneous investigations into other utility catastrophes, which allowed utility lawyers to dominate its proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mark Ferron, former CPUC commissioner\"]'On a scale from one to 10, where 10 is really obstructive and zero is completely cooperative, I would have put PG&E at a nine.'[/pullquote]In many cases, PG&E could have upgraded its systems and passed along those costs to its consumers as rate increases. After starting a devastating fire in 2018, the company filed for bankruptcy. Its exit plan, approved in June, leaves the company as much as $38 billion in debt, including $13.5 billion in compensation owed to people who lost their homes and businesses in fires over the last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E wasn’t the only utility that pushed back against fire-prevention regulations. California’s two other major investor-owned utilities, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, usually sided with them. But documents and interviews suggest that the vigor and persistence of PG&E’s resistance stood out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a scale from one to 10, where 10 is really obstructive and zero is completely cooperative, I would have put PG&E at a nine,” said Mark Ferron, a CPUC commissioner from 2011 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The culture of PG&E has been to push back,” said Timothy Alan Simon, the former CPUC commissioner assigned to oversee the first years of the proceeding. “I think that kind of attitude has backfired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncooperative power company, together with an overwhelmed regulator, a rapidly warming climate and a growing population living in California’s tinder-dry forests combined to set the stage for tragedy: PG&E equipment has been found responsible for numerous wildfires in recent years, including the 2018 Camp Fire that burned nearly 14,000 homes and killed scores of people in the town of Paradise and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11824596 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS33914_111318_AW_CampFire_02-qut-1020x680.jpg']FRONTLINE’s review of hundreds of documents filed with CPUC between 2008 and 2019 reveals that PG&E and its regulators repeatedly failed to swiftly adopt stringent safety measures. The story those records tell has been corroborated by interviews with more than a dozen experts and officials, some now retired, who attended years of hearings and workshops. PG&E’s recent embrace of fire safety policies, they say, has taken place only after years of resistance — a pattern that caused them deep exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deflect, delay, defer … we would joke that these were the rules of utility rulemaking,” said Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Todd, one of the few firefighting professionals who attended the CPUC hearings. “There was just no movement. It felt that they were just going to run out the clock on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fire prevention measures were first proposed by a small, determined cadre of safety advocates long before they were forced upon the utilities by the CPUC or frustrated state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We called it the glacial rodeo,” said Joseph Mitchell, a San Diego County resident who devoted years advocating for greater fire safety. “PG&E was just very, very hesitant. … I think it's come back to bite them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to a list of questions regarding the pushback on fire safety measures described in this story, PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison said in an email that “PG&E is very much focused on the future and re-imagining the company as one driven by the twin goals of safety and better serving our customers.” The devastating 2017 and 2018 fires “have made it clear that we must work together to continue to do what we must to keep our customers, their families and communities safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison points to the “state-of-the-art technology and techniques” the company has implemented in the last three years, including new fire-spread modeling, hundreds of new weather stations and cameras that allow for more granular weather forecasting and fire monitoring, and line inspections that sometimes include drones and helicopters. She says PG&E has begun replacing conventional power lines in wildfire-prone areas with insulated “tree wire” that’s less likely to spark a blaze if it comes into contact with vegetation. And she says the company has begun the process of dividing up its distribution system so that fire safety power shutoffs affect fewer people. These and other measures “lessen the risk that our equipment will start a wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She referred to a summary on PG&E’s website detailing the many strides the company has made toward fire safety over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain deeply, deeply sorry for the terrible devastation we have caused,” said former company CEO William Johnson in a June 18 public statement accompanying the company’s guilty plea for the Camp Fire deaths. “We are intently focused on reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/PGE-Cuts-Line-After-Camp-Fire-2-scaled-e1597706943224.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1405\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked to respond to charges that the CPUC’s approach to wildfire safety wasn’t aggressive enough in the years leading to the disasters of 2017 and 2018, commission spokesperson Terrie Prosper said in an email that the agency has been “working hard to address wildfire issues, both by ramping up staffing and by creating new policies and working with sister agencies. … Since the massive wildfires began a few years ago, the CPUC has taken a number of steps to ensure rules were in place for utilities, who have an obligation to safely operate their systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 100 deaths in PG&E-caused fires since 2015, critics of the utility and its regulator say such changes have come too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former CPUC commissioner Catherine Sandoval says PG&E knew it had a wildfire problem fueled by drought and bark-beetle tree die-offs long before taking its recent steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew that their territory was very vulnerable to wildfire,” she said. “Any assertion that they were just getting started on it in 2019 is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, Mitchell was devastated as he listened to news reports of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had tears streaming down my face,” he said. “I mean, it was so frustrating to have worked so hard on this for so long, and to have this horrendous failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Trench Warfare’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, a physicist who worked in Europe before moving to California, bought his white, two-story San Diego County bungalow in 1999. Surrounded by crooked cacti and leggy rose bushes, the home sits atop a scrub-lined road northeast of San Diego in an area historically prone to devastating wildfires. In dry years — meaning most years — any wayward spark can ignite an inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haunted by the prospect that a wildfire could reduce his life to rubble, Mitchell rigged a rooftop watering system to protect his home in 2003. Soon after, a fire destroyed hundreds of nearby homes. Thanks to his system, when Mitchell and his wife Diane Conklin returned to theirs, roses still bloomed around their unscathed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg\" alt=\"Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joseph Mitchell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When San Diego Gas & Electric proposed a new power line through the neighborhood, Mitchell began investigating its potential fire risk and found a stunning relationship: Electrical equipment starts 10 percent or fewer of California’s fires, but has caused 40 percent of the state’s worst blazes. That’s because the high winds that can snap power poles and bring down lines can transform a spark into a catastrophe. When SDG&E equipment ignited the Witch Fire in 2007, Mitchell’s home again survived — but 1,100 others did not. He and Conklin decided they had to do more to protect their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did the CPUC: In late 2008, the regulator opened a proceeding aimed at preventing future utility-caused fires. Thus began a years-long process in which stakeholders — including utility companies, state and city agencies, telecommunications firms, safety advocates and CPUC officials — could propose and debate new rules the utilities would have to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell and Conklin, a law school graduate, threw themselves into the process as advocates under the name Mussey Grade Road Alliance, after their San Diego County community. Mitchell consulted wildfire experts and immersed himself in research papers while Conklin handled the legal paperwork. To encourage public involvement in proceedings, the CPUC pays participants for their time and labor; since 2006, Mitchell estimates that the couple has received close to $700,000 from the CPUC for their work on wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the proceeding unfolded, it calcified into a series of standoffs between opposing camps. On one side: Mitchell, Conklin, a handful of municipal fire and elected officials, and the CPUC Consumer Protection and Safety Division — the department tasked with advocating for safety. On the other: attorneys representing the utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Florio, former CPUC commissioner\"]'We had a very skeleton internal staff that didn’t really have any kind of wildfire expertise... I guess it’s human nature, you don’t get a focus on something until it becomes a problem.'[/pullquote]Southern California Edison, with territory far larger than San Diego Gas & Electric’s but not as sprawling or complex as PG&E’s, was dogged by the danger of the region’s famous Santa Ana winds. Despite this specter of higher fire risk, their attorneys nearly always sided with PG&E during the hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDG&E, which has the smallest and simplest system of the three major utilities, was the most likely to agree to proposed fire safety rules, as it had already invested in reforms after its equipment had touched off major fires in 2003 and 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to make some real changes,” said Los Angeles County Fire’s John Todd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd had trained as a forester before being hired by the county’s fire agency and believed safety should trump financial considerations. He expected to be involved in the CPUC proceeding for a few months at the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually I learned that this was going to be a long game,” Todd said. He attended meetings for years, growing incredulous at how long it took to get new rules written. “It was trench warfare. … We weren't moving, we were just locked into place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workload was unsustainable, Todd says, and he eventually stepped back to focus on pressing safety issues in his own community. That left the process even more vulnerable to domination by the utilities, he said, because once everyone else returned to their day jobs, “who's over there still working on the rule book?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another official at many hearings was now-retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. He recalls that utility lawyers would frequently call for a vote over a motion, transforming a regulatory process into a democratic one. “It was all run by the utilities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often found himself the only fire official present during a given hearing, but was convinced that if other local fire officials had known about the proceeding, they would have been there. The Laguna Beach team became so frustrated with the lack of community involvement that they reached out to their state senator, John Moorlach. In 2016, Moorlach introduced a bill that would have required the CPUC and Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, to consult with local officials and fire departments in identifying areas where overhead power lines posed an increased wildfire risk. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill, saying the agencies were already addressing the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, the CPUC commissioner, admits the regulator has not always been rigorous about encouraging public involvement, a “blind spot” that can tilt the balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The utilities have a very deep bench, which oftentimes can outmatch local governments or other intervenors,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the commission eventually did rule in favor of safety policies — but only after years of contentious hearings. Several people, including three former CPUC employees, told FRONTLINE that the regulator’s biggest problem was an absence of in-house expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a very skeleton internal staff that didn’t really have any kind of wildfire expertise,” said Mike Florio, a former commissioner who oversaw the proceeding between 2011 and 2017. “I guess it’s human nature, you don’t get a focus on something until it becomes a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has since addressed its understaffing, said CPUC spokesperson Prosper: In 2018, the agency hired its first three engineers dedicated to wildfires. At the direction of the Legislature, the CPUC has established a new Wildfire Safety Division, which will audit and evaluate utilities’ safety plans. Another new division will provide advisory support to CPUC on safety policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Waste of Commission Staff and Utility Time’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as the 2008 wildfire safety proceeding began, its slow pace worried CPUC’s safety division. In a March 2009 filing, commission engineer Ray Fugere wrote that “certain entities… would have the commission act like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. … Fires ignited by electric power lines have been responsible for some of the largest wildland fires in California’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how the utilities influenced the pace and outcome of the proceeding, FRONTLINE’s investigation focused on three proposed rules: One would require utilities to report each fire that their equipment started. A second would create detailed maps to identify fire-prone parts of the system. A third would require utilities to create contingency plans for extreme winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group made the first proposal – that utilities track and report every fire – as soon as the proceeding began. As it stood, utilities only reported fires that burned more than 100 acres. But Mitchell believed that gathering data on all fires — even small ones — would help utilities identify problem areas and prevent larger blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E immediately opposed the idea, saying that earlier efforts to collect such data had proven “a waste of commission staff and utility time” and that being required to disclose its role in fires could create new legal liabilities. Mitchell “would like to have the electric utilities collect fire incident data on the theory that it might be helpful for study in the future,” wrote PG&E’s attorneys in January 2010. PG&E put forth an alternate proposal, which would require utilities and the CPUC’s safety division to jointly assess “adequacy of fire-related data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Older and Overlooked\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44306_GettyImages-1059345394-qut.jpg\" heroURL=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968076\" link1=\"https://data.kqed.org/olderandoverlooked/index.html,See How Wildfires Endanger Older Californians - and Find Out If Your Address Is in a Fire-Prone Area\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968076/even-after-care-homes-abandoned-residents-california-still-isnt-ready-for-wildfires,Even After Care Homes Abandoned Residents, California Still Isn't Ready for Wildfires\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968093,The Questions to Ask Your Loved One's Facility\" link4=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968417/millions-of-older-californians-live-where-wildfire-threatens-mostly-theyre-on-their-own,Millions of Older Californians Live Where Wildfire Threatens. Mostly, They're on Their Own\"]Initially, the CPUC rejected both Mitchell’s and PG&E’s proposals. “We are not convinced that the … proposal to require [utilities] to report detailed data on all power-line fires will be any more successful than our previous effort,” it wrote in a 2012 decision. But the commission promised to reconsider the issue in a future phase of the proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group continued to advocate for fire reporting, while PG&E and Southern California Edison persisted in their opposition, now arguing the idea was impractical because it would largely rely on “field observations made by utility personnel who are not trained forensic fire investigators.” Finally, in 2013, PG&E and Edison agreed to the mandate after negotiating changes that would limit their liability. But even after that, PG&E and Edison pushed for the rule to apply exclusively to “extreme” or “very high” fire threat areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2014 — the proceeding’s sixth year — that the commission finally mandated utilities track and report all fires, noting that PG&E and Edison remained “lukewarm” about the plan while SDG&E “strongly” supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s Robison did not comment on the company’s opposition to reporting its system’s fires, but she said that data now provides “an invaluable tool” for PG&E and regulators, allowing them to “evaluate diverse risks, better understand the effects of extreme weather, and, most importantly, improve wildfire safety.” She noted that the reported data has shown that the majority of fires associated with its system were “relatively small in size” and occurred outside high-risk areas. Further, she said, the data has shown that the number of fires within its highest risk territories has decreased by nearly 30 percent over the last two years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Fire Prevention Plan Is Not Necessary’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A second key proposal made early in the rulemaking would require utilities to create contingency plans for the extreme winds that can cause fast-moving, destructive wildfires. The utilities could then assess what equipment might be vulnerable under worst-case wind conditions and either reinforce it or take other safety steps, like power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, PG&E pushed back, describing the idea as “misplaced” for several reasons: It fell under an inappropriate legal framework; duplicated plans already in existence; and assumed that “somehow utilities (or anyone else) can predict wildfires started by” power lines. Edison endorsed PG&E’s position, adding that the company “does not believe such costs are outweighed by the uncertain benefits of this proposal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Fire-in-Paradise-screengrab-e1597709923559.jpg\" alt=\"A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in modern state history. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E also argued that if adopted, the mandate should only apply to Southern California utilities: “High winds in Northern California are most frequently associated with winter storms (not summer fire risk) and may not play as great a role in potential fire risk in Northern California as they do in Southern California,” the company’s lawyers wrote in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an argument PG&E made for years: That it should be held to different fire safety standards than its Southern Californian counterparts. Yet according to fire officials interviewed for this story, the historical record shows that wind-driven wildfire has always been a part of Northern California’s landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its 2012 decision, the CPUC required the two Southern California utilities to create fire prevention plans while asking PG&E to make a “good faith” effort to determine if its territory needed one too. Months later, PG&E told the commission that it had done its due diligence and “determined a fire prevention plan is not necessary” for its Northern California facilities. However, it nonetheless included a six-page summary of its territory-wide fire prevention and mitigation plans. The CPUC in 2013 approved the filing despite protests from Mitchell’s group that it was grossly inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a disaster of historic proportions and a sweeping change in state law to force PG&E to finally create a rigorous, enforceable fire protection plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power line-sparked fires swept through parts of Northern California in October 2017, destroying nearly 10,000 structures and killing 44 people. State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents a wine country district that saw some of the worst of the destruction, was so incensed that PG&E lacked a legally binding wildfire safety plan that he wrote a law requiring the state's utilities to develop plans or face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Dodd-2017-Firestorm-Destruction-scaled-e1597708551796.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February 2019, PG&E submitted the first of its newly required annual wildfire mitigation plans. In that 145-page blueprint, the company envisioned spending at least $1.7 billion for a program including improved infrastructure, a dramatically expanded effort to find and trim or remove dangerous trees near power lines, and expanding its network of remote weather stations to provide better awareness during periods of high fire danger. The plan also relied heavily on public safety power shutoffs to minimize the risk of wildfires during extremely windy, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CPUC administrative law judge signed off on the plan, though she identified several aspects of PG&E’s plan that required improvement in the following years’ plans. Responding, PG&E wrote, “we will not solve the problems of catastrophic wildfires in one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the utility’s initial resistance to creating a fire contingency plan, PG&E’s Robison referred to a section of the 2012 decision in which the CPUC echoed the PG&E’s longstanding argument that Southern California “is the area of the state with the greatest risk” of utility-caused fires. Edison’s spokesman David Song said his company had never been “opposed to performing risk analysis on equipment based on high winds in high fire areas,” but rather contested the legal framework of the proposal and believed it conflicted with other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E got mixed reviews for its execution of the first year’s plan. Unlike 2017 and 2018, no one died in fires sparked by the company’s equipment. But its widespread power shutoffs, which reached a climax during prolonged windstorms in October 2019 when more than 1 million customers were blacked out, were initially plagued by poor communication with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the utility reported it found hundreds of locations where the shutoffs probably prevented fires, one of its high-voltage transmission lines touched off one of the year’s most destructive blazes — the Kincade Fire, which broke out as 80 m.p.h. gusts raked a mountainous area north of San Francisco. About 200,000 people were forced from their homes during the incident, which destroyed 374 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Battle Over Maps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A third proposal advocated by Mitchell’s group and the CPUC’s safety division championed the creation of elaborate statewide fire maps overseen by the commission. Fire scientists have long known that a granular map of winds and other weather factors, layered on maps of vegetation, topography, human settlement and power lines, can provide invaluable insight into where fires may start and spread. Such maps could help utilities focus maintenance work on the areas at highest risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric had already mapped its system. PG&E and Southern California Edison were open to the idea, but pushed back on a series of specifics. PG&E attorneys asked that the CPUC not enforce the maps in an “absolute or prescriptive” way. “It should be made clear in the standard or rule that the maps are simply a guideline, and not the ultimate authority,” PG&E attorneys wrote in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC adopted interim fire maps for Southern California that year, but when Mitchell’s group and the commission’s safety division pushed for statewide maps with detailed wind data, Edison said the proposal would “impose significant costs on the utilities” and would duplicate work already done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do not adopt,” PG&E attorneys wrote. “[The proposal] should be rejected outright. It overreaches in many respects, including the fact that it proposes that the maps be funded by the [utilities].” The company began suggesting the commission postpone the map question until a later phase of the proceeding, a suggestion the CPUC agreed to over the objections of safety advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, PG&E and SoCal Edison had stopped resisting the concept but continued to influence the plan in ways that safety advocates believed delayed its implementation and diminished its rigor. That May, the CPUC opened a whole new proceeding to specifically focus on the maps and other issues that hadn’t been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in 2016, after Cal Fire concluded PG&E equipment had sparked a 70,000-acre wind-driven fire in Amador and Calaveras counties the year before, the utility continued to assert the fire threat in its territory was “very different from conditions in Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around then, Mitchell noticed that wind-specific maps — the core of his initial proposal — had been diluted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been promised a steak, and it has been turned into a hash, and then put into a stew, which has been used to make a soup,” Mitchell wrote. “If the commission is to deliver on what it has promised ratepayers in this proceeding … it will need to pull the steak back out of the soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2018 — nearly a decade after the mapping proposal was first made — the CPUC adopted new fire maps and required utilities to use remote weather stations to monitor high winds. Mitchell notes that the maps still lack the detailed wind data that would help utilities pinpoint vulnerable infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked recently about its early opposition to detailed, CPUC-managed maps, Edison’s spokesperson, Song, said the utility’s “concern was procedural in nature, not with the substance of the rulemaking.” In response to a similar inquiry, PG&E’s Robison said the current map is helping PG&E and others prioritize safety, prevention and response efforts. She added that it shows how dramatically climate impacts are increasing fire risk. “In less than a decade, the area served by PG&E that the CPUC designated to be at a high risk of wildfire has tripled from 15 percent to more than 50 percent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stopping Sparks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Regulatory hearings weren’t the only arena in which PG&E took a sluggish approach to addressing fire safety. FRONTLINE’s investigation found the utility also failed to adopt a risk-reduction technique that had been used by other utilities for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power lines suffer a problem — for instance, a branch striking the line — devices called \"reclosers\" will halt the flow of electricity, then immediately try to restore it. (When lights flicker at a home or an office building, it’s likely due to a recloser doing its job.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least 30 years, utilities have known that reclosers can also start fires. For instance, if a line breaks and falls on brush-covered ground, the recloser’s attempt to resume the flow of power can spark a fire. A 1989 booklet titled “Power Line Fire Prevention Field Guide,” written by utility companies in conjunction with state fire agencies, outlined the risk: “Automatic reclosers, by re-energizing the line... increase the probability of ignition,” the booklet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, many utilities have long-standing policies to turn off reclosers during fire season, opting for the laborious but safer method of sending out a crew to manually check a power line when it faults. Southern California Edison told FRONTLINE that it has had a policy in place to block reclosers during fire season since at least 1956; SDG&E began doing the same after its 2007 fire and hasn’t identified a recloser-linked fire since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a real basic, easy thing to do,” said Hal Mortier, SDG&E’s retired head of fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators raised the danger of reclosers with PG&E more than once: Former commissioner Simon said the regulator had “extensive dialogue” about reclosers with all utilities after the 2007 Witch Fire in San Diego County. And at a state Senate hearing in 2015, Sen. Jerry Hill of suburban San Francisco again asked utility officials about recloser risks. Representatives from SDG&E and Edison said they had recloser policies in place, while Pat Hogan, a PG&E senior vice president, said his company’s policy was “very similar to my colleagues’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, PG&E did not have a formal recloser policy — a reality that came to light two years later when an active recloser re-energized a fallen line north of San Francisco, sparking a fire. It joined with four other nearby fires, part of the October 2017 wildfire siege, which ultimately killed three people and burned 172 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E only implemented a system-wide recloser shutoff policy in June 2018, after Sen. Hill authored a bill mandating they do so. When asked by FRONTLINE why the company had long failed to adopt such a measure, PG&E’s Robison did not respond directly, but rather outlined the specifics of the June 2018 program they were legally required to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are able to disable reclosing on those line reclosers based on a daily decision-making process during periods of high fire danger, as determined by our Wildfire Safety Operations Center,\" Robison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'A Right to Expect Better'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After killing scores of people and destroying billions of dollars of property, PG&E has now adopted a drastic new measure: It routinely cuts power to large portions of the state during times of high fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric started giving the measure considerable thought more than a decade ago. After the Witch Fire, SDG&E asked the CPUC for a special proceeding to develop a policy on power shutoffs during high winds. It implemented its first power shutoff under that policy in 2013, and then invested in grid upgrades allowing the utility to, for example, cut power to homes on a single ridge rather than to a whole city. The utility has also ramped up communication systems to notify customers as threatening conditions develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E and SoCal Edison declined to participate in the proceeding that created the first preemptive power shutoff rules. When the subject was raised in 2010, PG&E said it had little interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No company makes any money when it is forced to terminate power,” utility attorneys wrote. “Termination of power at multiple locations is the last thing that a utility wants to do.” As recently as January 2018, just months after disastrous electricity-sparked fires swept Northern California, PG&E’s former senior vice president Pat Hogan said in a state Senate hearing that the company was open to the idea, but did not have plans to implement it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This changed months later, after CalFire concluded that PG&E equipment had caused 12 of the previous year’s fires. In October 2018, PG&E conducted its first major intentional blackout during a period of high winds and extremely low humidity, turning off power to 60,000 customers in seven counties. But an event several weeks later led to a dramatic shift in how PG&E and state regulators looked at public safety power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, a badly worn piece of equipment on a PG&E transmission tower failed, providing the spark that ignited the Camp Fire and incinerated Paradise. PG&E’s policy at the time did not include shutting down its high-voltage transmission lines during fire safety blackouts. The utility said doing that would be overly complex, might affect the stability of its power grid and would likely affect millions of people in its service area. The company’s stance changed after the Camp Fire, with PG&E deciding in 2019 it would include transmission lines in its power shutoff plans. Partly as a consequence, the company repeatedly turned off power last fall to hundreds of thousands of customers at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Power-Shutoff-Oakland-2019-scaled-e1597708246761.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's darkened Montclair neighborhood at dusk during a PG&E power shutoff on Oct. 10, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland's darkened Montclair neighborhood at dusk during a PG&E power shutoff on Oct. 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid widespread criticism of the 2019 shutoffs, PG&E CEO Johnson said it will likely take at least a decade for the company to fortify the system enough to make blackouts unnecessary. That comment drew public outcry, and since then, PG&E has laid out a new plan for power shutoffs, promising future shutoffs will be “smarter, smaller and shorter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California faces the perennial threat of a potentially catastrophic fire season — as well as a global pandemic that threatens to hamper firefighting efforts — many involved in the CPUC wildfire rulemaking reflect on the process with regret: that it took so long; that the commission was hobbled by insufficient expertise; that aggressive safety measures weren’t adopted sooner. It’s impossible to know if those differences could have prevented any given fire, but they cannot help but speculate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, I still think that the results are watered down, and it’s for economic reasons,” said retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. “But look at what these fires are costing [PG&E]. Not just in losses, but in lawsuits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hundreds of hours spent navigating the unwieldy CPUC proceedings, Joseph Mitchell still considers utility-caused wildfires a solvable problem. This gives him hope, as well as commitment to the cause of utility safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes have been very slow,” he said. “People have a right to be upset, they have a right to be concerned, and I think they have a right to expect better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from Jodi Wei, and additional editing from KQED's Dan Brekke.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>FRONTLINE’s review of hundreds of documents filed with CPUC between 2008 and 2019 reveals that PG&E and its regulators repeatedly failed to swiftly adopt stringent safety measures. The story those records tell has been corroborated by interviews with more than a dozen experts and officials, some now retired, who attended years of hearings and workshops. PG&E’s recent embrace of fire safety policies, they say, has taken place only after years of resistance — a pattern that caused them deep exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deflect, delay, defer … we would joke that these were the rules of utility rulemaking,” said Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Todd, one of the few firefighting professionals who attended the CPUC hearings. “There was just no movement. It felt that they were just going to run out the clock on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fire prevention measures were first proposed by a small, determined cadre of safety advocates long before they were forced upon the utilities by the CPUC or frustrated state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We called it the glacial rodeo,” said Joseph Mitchell, a San Diego County resident who devoted years advocating for greater fire safety. “PG&E was just very, very hesitant. … I think it's come back to bite them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to a list of questions regarding the pushback on fire safety measures described in this story, PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison said in an email that “PG&E is very much focused on the future and re-imagining the company as one driven by the twin goals of safety and better serving our customers.” The devastating 2017 and 2018 fires “have made it clear that we must work together to continue to do what we must to keep our customers, their families and communities safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison points to the “state-of-the-art technology and techniques” the company has implemented in the last three years, including new fire-spread modeling, hundreds of new weather stations and cameras that allow for more granular weather forecasting and fire monitoring, and line inspections that sometimes include drones and helicopters. She says PG&E has begun replacing conventional power lines in wildfire-prone areas with insulated “tree wire” that’s less likely to spark a blaze if it comes into contact with vegetation. And she says the company has begun the process of dividing up its distribution system so that fire safety power shutoffs affect fewer people. These and other measures “lessen the risk that our equipment will start a wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She referred to a summary on PG&E’s website detailing the many strides the company has made toward fire safety over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain deeply, deeply sorry for the terrible devastation we have caused,” said former company CEO William Johnson in a June 18 public statement accompanying the company’s guilty plea for the Camp Fire deaths. “We are intently focused on reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/PGE-Cuts-Line-After-Camp-Fire-2-scaled-e1597706943224.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1405\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E workers cut damaged power lines near Paradise on Nov. 13, 2018, five days after a PG&E transmission line sparked the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked to respond to charges that the CPUC’s approach to wildfire safety wasn’t aggressive enough in the years leading to the disasters of 2017 and 2018, commission spokesperson Terrie Prosper said in an email that the agency has been “working hard to address wildfire issues, both by ramping up staffing and by creating new policies and working with sister agencies. … Since the massive wildfires began a few years ago, the CPUC has taken a number of steps to ensure rules were in place for utilities, who have an obligation to safely operate their systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 100 deaths in PG&E-caused fires since 2015, critics of the utility and its regulator say such changes have come too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former CPUC commissioner Catherine Sandoval says PG&E knew it had a wildfire problem fueled by drought and bark-beetle tree die-offs long before taking its recent steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew that their territory was very vulnerable to wildfire,” she said. “Any assertion that they were just getting started on it in 2019 is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, Mitchell was devastated as he listened to news reports of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had tears streaming down my face,” he said. “I mean, it was so frustrating to have worked so hard on this for so long, and to have this horrendous failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Trench Warfare’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, a physicist who worked in Europe before moving to California, bought his white, two-story San Diego County bungalow in 1999. Surrounded by crooked cacti and leggy rose bushes, the home sits atop a scrub-lined road northeast of San Diego in an area historically prone to devastating wildfires. In dry years — meaning most years — any wayward spark can ignite an inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haunted by the prospect that a wildfire could reduce his life to rubble, Mitchell rigged a rooftop watering system to protect his home in 2003. Soon after, a fire destroyed hundreds of nearby homes. Thanks to his system, when Mitchell and his wife Diane Conklin returned to theirs, roses still bloomed around their unscathed home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg\" alt=\"Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/MitchellHouse-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before he became involved in state-level hearings on wildfire safety, San Diego-area engineer Joseph Mitchell designed this rooftop watering system to protect his own home from fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joseph Mitchell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When San Diego Gas & Electric proposed a new power line through the neighborhood, Mitchell began investigating its potential fire risk and found a stunning relationship: Electrical equipment starts 10 percent or fewer of California’s fires, but has caused 40 percent of the state’s worst blazes. That’s because the high winds that can snap power poles and bring down lines can transform a spark into a catastrophe. When SDG&E equipment ignited the Witch Fire in 2007, Mitchell’s home again survived — but 1,100 others did not. He and Conklin decided they had to do more to protect their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did the CPUC: In late 2008, the regulator opened a proceeding aimed at preventing future utility-caused fires. Thus began a years-long process in which stakeholders — including utility companies, state and city agencies, telecommunications firms, safety advocates and CPUC officials — could propose and debate new rules the utilities would have to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell and Conklin, a law school graduate, threw themselves into the process as advocates under the name Mussey Grade Road Alliance, after their San Diego County community. Mitchell consulted wildfire experts and immersed himself in research papers while Conklin handled the legal paperwork. 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He expected to be involved in the CPUC proceeding for a few months at the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually I learned that this was going to be a long game,” Todd said. He attended meetings for years, growing incredulous at how long it took to get new rules written. “It was trench warfare. … We weren't moving, we were just locked into place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workload was unsustainable, Todd says, and he eventually stepped back to focus on pressing safety issues in his own community. That left the process even more vulnerable to domination by the utilities, he said, because once everyone else returned to their day jobs, “who's over there still working on the rule book?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another official at many hearings was now-retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. He recalls that utility lawyers would frequently call for a vote over a motion, transforming a regulatory process into a democratic one. “It was all run by the utilities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often found himself the only fire official present during a given hearing, but was convinced that if other local fire officials had known about the proceeding, they would have been there. The Laguna Beach team became so frustrated with the lack of community involvement that they reached out to their state senator, John Moorlach. In 2016, Moorlach introduced a bill that would have required the CPUC and Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, to consult with local officials and fire departments in identifying areas where overhead power lines posed an increased wildfire risk. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill, saying the agencies were already addressing the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, the CPUC commissioner, admits the regulator has not always been rigorous about encouraging public involvement, a “blind spot” that can tilt the balance of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The utilities have a very deep bench, which oftentimes can outmatch local governments or other intervenors,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the commission eventually did rule in favor of safety policies — but only after years of contentious hearings. Several people, including three former CPUC employees, told FRONTLINE that the regulator’s biggest problem was an absence of in-house expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a very skeleton internal staff that didn’t really have any kind of wildfire expertise,” said Mike Florio, a former commissioner who oversaw the proceeding between 2011 and 2017. “I guess it’s human nature, you don’t get a focus on something until it becomes a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has since addressed its understaffing, said CPUC spokesperson Prosper: In 2018, the agency hired its first three engineers dedicated to wildfires. At the direction of the Legislature, the CPUC has established a new Wildfire Safety Division, which will audit and evaluate utilities’ safety plans. Another new division will provide advisory support to CPUC on safety policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Waste of Commission Staff and Utility Time’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Almost as soon as the 2008 wildfire safety proceeding began, its slow pace worried CPUC’s safety division. In a March 2009 filing, commission engineer Ray Fugere wrote that “certain entities… would have the commission act like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. … Fires ignited by electric power lines have been responsible for some of the largest wildland fires in California’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how the utilities influenced the pace and outcome of the proceeding, FRONTLINE’s investigation focused on three proposed rules: One would require utilities to report each fire that their equipment started. A second would create detailed maps to identify fire-prone parts of the system. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Initially, the CPUC rejected both Mitchell’s and PG&E’s proposals. “We are not convinced that the … proposal to require [utilities] to report detailed data on all power-line fires will be any more successful than our previous effort,” it wrote in a 2012 decision. But the commission promised to reconsider the issue in a future phase of the proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell’s group continued to advocate for fire reporting, while PG&E and Southern California Edison persisted in their opposition, now arguing the idea was impractical because it would largely rely on “field observations made by utility personnel who are not trained forensic fire investigators.” Finally, in 2013, PG&E and Edison agreed to the mandate after negotiating changes that would limit their liability. But even after that, PG&E and Edison pushed for the rule to apply exclusively to “extreme” or “very high” fire threat areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2014 — the proceeding’s sixth year — that the commission finally mandated utilities track and report all fires, noting that PG&E and Edison remained “lukewarm” about the plan while SDG&E “strongly” supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s Robison did not comment on the company’s opposition to reporting its system’s fires, but she said that data now provides “an invaluable tool” for PG&E and regulators, allowing them to “evaluate diverse risks, better understand the effects of extreme weather, and, most importantly, improve wildfire safety.” She noted that the reported data has shown that the majority of fires associated with its system were “relatively small in size” and occurred outside high-risk areas. Further, she said, the data has shown that the number of fires within its highest risk territories has decreased by nearly 30 percent over the last two years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A Fire Prevention Plan Is Not Necessary’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A second key proposal made early in the rulemaking would require utilities to create contingency plans for the extreme winds that can cause fast-moving, destructive wildfires. The utilities could then assess what equipment might be vulnerable under worst-case wind conditions and either reinforce it or take other safety steps, like power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, PG&E pushed back, describing the idea as “misplaced” for several reasons: It fell under an inappropriate legal framework; duplicated plans already in existence; and assumed that “somehow utilities (or anyone else) can predict wildfires started by” power lines. Edison endorsed PG&E’s position, adding that the company “does not believe such costs are outweighed by the uncertain benefits of this proposal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Fire-in-Paradise-screengrab-e1597709923559.jpg\" alt=\"A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in California history.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image shows the Camp Fire - driven by high winds after it was sparked by PG&E equipment - as it consumes the town of Paradise in Nov., 2018. The blaze remains the deadliest and most destructive in modern state history. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E also argued that if adopted, the mandate should only apply to Southern California utilities: “High winds in Northern California are most frequently associated with winter storms (not summer fire risk) and may not play as great a role in potential fire risk in Northern California as they do in Southern California,” the company’s lawyers wrote in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an argument PG&E made for years: That it should be held to different fire safety standards than its Southern Californian counterparts. Yet according to fire officials interviewed for this story, the historical record shows that wind-driven wildfire has always been a part of Northern California’s landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its 2012 decision, the CPUC required the two Southern California utilities to create fire prevention plans while asking PG&E to make a “good faith” effort to determine if its territory needed one too. Months later, PG&E told the commission that it had done its due diligence and “determined a fire prevention plan is not necessary” for its Northern California facilities. However, it nonetheless included a six-page summary of its territory-wide fire prevention and mitigation plans. The CPUC in 2013 approved the filing despite protests from Mitchell’s group that it was grossly inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a disaster of historic proportions and a sweeping change in state law to force PG&E to finally create a rigorous, enforceable fire protection plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power line-sparked fires swept through parts of Northern California in October 2017, destroying nearly 10,000 structures and killing 44 people. State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents a wine country district that saw some of the worst of the destruction, was so incensed that PG&E lacked a legally binding wildfire safety plan that he wrote a law requiring the state's utilities to develop plans or face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Dodd-2017-Firestorm-Destruction-scaled-e1597708551796.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Bill Dodd stands outside a home at the Silverado Crest residential complex in Napa County not long after it was destroyed by the wine country firestorm of Oct. 2017. Dodd lived nearby. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February 2019, PG&E submitted the first of its newly required annual wildfire mitigation plans. In that 145-page blueprint, the company envisioned spending at least $1.7 billion for a program including improved infrastructure, a dramatically expanded effort to find and trim or remove dangerous trees near power lines, and expanding its network of remote weather stations to provide better awareness during periods of high fire danger. The plan also relied heavily on public safety power shutoffs to minimize the risk of wildfires during extremely windy, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CPUC administrative law judge signed off on the plan, though she identified several aspects of PG&E’s plan that required improvement in the following years’ plans. Responding, PG&E wrote, “we will not solve the problems of catastrophic wildfires in one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the utility’s initial resistance to creating a fire contingency plan, PG&E’s Robison referred to a section of the 2012 decision in which the CPUC echoed the PG&E’s longstanding argument that Southern California “is the area of the state with the greatest risk” of utility-caused fires. Edison’s spokesman David Song said his company had never been “opposed to performing risk analysis on equipment based on high winds in high fire areas,” but rather contested the legal framework of the proposal and believed it conflicted with other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E got mixed reviews for its execution of the first year’s plan. Unlike 2017 and 2018, no one died in fires sparked by the company’s equipment. But its widespread power shutoffs, which reached a climax during prolonged windstorms in October 2019 when more than 1 million customers were blacked out, were initially plagued by poor communication with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Bill-Johnson-at-CPUC-Meeting-Shutoffs-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO Bill Johnson addressed the utility's widespread power shutoffs at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the utility reported it found hundreds of locations where the shutoffs probably prevented fires, one of its high-voltage transmission lines touched off one of the year’s most destructive blazes — the Kincade Fire, which broke out as 80 m.p.h. gusts raked a mountainous area north of San Francisco. About 200,000 people were forced from their homes during the incident, which destroyed 374 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Battle Over Maps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A third proposal advocated by Mitchell’s group and the CPUC’s safety division championed the creation of elaborate statewide fire maps overseen by the commission. Fire scientists have long known that a granular map of winds and other weather factors, layered on maps of vegetation, topography, human settlement and power lines, can provide invaluable insight into where fires may start and spread. Such maps could help utilities focus maintenance work on the areas at highest risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric had already mapped its system. PG&E and Southern California Edison were open to the idea, but pushed back on a series of specifics. PG&E attorneys asked that the CPUC not enforce the maps in an “absolute or prescriptive” way. “It should be made clear in the standard or rule that the maps are simply a guideline, and not the ultimate authority,” PG&E attorneys wrote in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC adopted interim fire maps for Southern California that year, but when Mitchell’s group and the commission’s safety division pushed for statewide maps with detailed wind data, Edison said the proposal would “impose significant costs on the utilities” and would duplicate work already done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do not adopt,” PG&E attorneys wrote. “[The proposal] should be rejected outright. It overreaches in many respects, including the fact that it proposes that the maps be funded by the [utilities].” The company began suggesting the commission postpone the map question until a later phase of the proceeding, a suggestion the CPUC agreed to over the objections of safety advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, PG&E and SoCal Edison had stopped resisting the concept but continued to influence the plan in ways that safety advocates believed delayed its implementation and diminished its rigor. That May, the CPUC opened a whole new proceeding to specifically focus on the maps and other issues that hadn’t been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in 2016, after Cal Fire concluded PG&E equipment had sparked a 70,000-acre wind-driven fire in Amador and Calaveras counties the year before, the utility continued to assert the fire threat in its territory was “very different from conditions in Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around then, Mitchell noticed that wind-specific maps — the core of his initial proposal — had been diluted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been promised a steak, and it has been turned into a hash, and then put into a stew, which has been used to make a soup,” Mitchell wrote. “If the commission is to deliver on what it has promised ratepayers in this proceeding … it will need to pull the steak back out of the soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2018 — nearly a decade after the mapping proposal was first made — the CPUC adopted new fire maps and required utilities to use remote weather stations to monitor high winds. Mitchell notes that the maps still lack the detailed wind data that would help utilities pinpoint vulnerable infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked recently about its early opposition to detailed, CPUC-managed maps, Edison’s spokesperson, Song, said the utility’s “concern was procedural in nature, not with the substance of the rulemaking.” In response to a similar inquiry, PG&E’s Robison said the current map is helping PG&E and others prioritize safety, prevention and response efforts. She added that it shows how dramatically climate impacts are increasing fire risk. “In less than a decade, the area served by PG&E that the CPUC designated to be at a high risk of wildfire has tripled from 15 percent to more than 50 percent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stopping Sparks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Regulatory hearings weren’t the only arena in which PG&E took a sluggish approach to addressing fire safety. FRONTLINE’s investigation found the utility also failed to adopt a risk-reduction technique that had been used by other utilities for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power lines suffer a problem — for instance, a branch striking the line — devices called \"reclosers\" will halt the flow of electricity, then immediately try to restore it. (When lights flicker at a home or an office building, it’s likely due to a recloser doing its job.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least 30 years, utilities have known that reclosers can also start fires. For instance, if a line breaks and falls on brush-covered ground, the recloser’s attempt to resume the flow of power can spark a fire. A 1989 booklet titled “Power Line Fire Prevention Field Guide,” written by utility companies in conjunction with state fire agencies, outlined the risk: “Automatic reclosers, by re-energizing the line... increase the probability of ignition,” the booklet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, many utilities have long-standing policies to turn off reclosers during fire season, opting for the laborious but safer method of sending out a crew to manually check a power line when it faults. Southern California Edison told FRONTLINE that it has had a policy in place to block reclosers during fire season since at least 1956; SDG&E began doing the same after its 2007 fire and hasn’t identified a recloser-linked fire since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a real basic, easy thing to do,” said Hal Mortier, SDG&E’s retired head of fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators raised the danger of reclosers with PG&E more than once: Former commissioner Simon said the regulator had “extensive dialogue” about reclosers with all utilities after the 2007 Witch Fire in San Diego County. And at a state Senate hearing in 2015, Sen. Jerry Hill of suburban San Francisco again asked utility officials about recloser risks. Representatives from SDG&E and Edison said they had recloser policies in place, while Pat Hogan, a PG&E senior vice president, said his company’s policy was “very similar to my colleagues’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, PG&E did not have a formal recloser policy — a reality that came to light two years later when an active recloser re-energized a fallen line north of San Francisco, sparking a fire. It joined with four other nearby fires, part of the October 2017 wildfire siege, which ultimately killed three people and burned 172 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E only implemented a system-wide recloser shutoff policy in June 2018, after Sen. Hill authored a bill mandating they do so. When asked by FRONTLINE why the company had long failed to adopt such a measure, PG&E’s Robison did not respond directly, but rather outlined the specifics of the June 2018 program they were legally required to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are able to disable reclosing on those line reclosers based on a daily decision-making process during periods of high fire danger, as determined by our Wildfire Safety Operations Center,\" Robison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'A Right to Expect Better'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After killing scores of people and destroying billions of dollars of property, PG&E has now adopted a drastic new measure: It routinely cuts power to large portions of the state during times of high fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Gas & Electric started giving the measure considerable thought more than a decade ago. After the Witch Fire, SDG&E asked the CPUC for a special proceeding to develop a policy on power shutoffs during high winds. It implemented its first power shutoff under that policy in 2013, and then invested in grid upgrades allowing the utility to, for example, cut power to homes on a single ridge rather than to a whole city. The utility has also ramped up communication systems to notify customers as threatening conditions develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E and SoCal Edison declined to participate in the proceeding that created the first preemptive power shutoff rules. When the subject was raised in 2010, PG&E said it had little interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No company makes any money when it is forced to terminate power,” utility attorneys wrote. “Termination of power at multiple locations is the last thing that a utility wants to do.” As recently as January 2018, just months after disastrous electricity-sparked fires swept Northern California, PG&E’s former senior vice president Pat Hogan said in a state Senate hearing that the company was open to the idea, but did not have plans to implement it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This changed months later, after CalFire concluded that PG&E equipment had caused 12 of the previous year’s fires. In October 2018, PG&E conducted its first major intentional blackout during a period of high winds and extremely low humidity, turning off power to 60,000 customers in seven counties. But an event several weeks later led to a dramatic shift in how PG&E and state regulators looked at public safety power shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, a badly worn piece of equipment on a PG&E transmission tower failed, providing the spark that ignited the Camp Fire and incinerated Paradise. PG&E’s policy at the time did not include shutting down its high-voltage transmission lines during fire safety blackouts. The utility said doing that would be overly complex, might affect the stability of its power grid and would likely affect millions of people in its service area. The company’s stance changed after the Camp Fire, with PG&E deciding in 2019 it would include transmission lines in its power shutoff plans. Partly as a consequence, the company repeatedly turned off power last fall to hundreds of thousands of customers at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Power-Shutoff-Oakland-2019-scaled-e1597708246761.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's darkened Montclair neighborhood at dusk during a PG&E power shutoff on Oct. 10, 2019.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland's darkened Montclair neighborhood at dusk during a PG&E power shutoff on Oct. 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid widespread criticism of the 2019 shutoffs, PG&E CEO Johnson said it will likely take at least a decade for the company to fortify the system enough to make blackouts unnecessary. That comment drew public outcry, and since then, PG&E has laid out a new plan for power shutoffs, promising future shutoffs will be “smarter, smaller and shorter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California faces the perennial threat of a potentially catastrophic fire season — as well as a global pandemic that threatens to hamper firefighting efforts — many involved in the CPUC wildfire rulemaking reflect on the process with regret: that it took so long; that the commission was hobbled by insufficient expertise; that aggressive safety measures weren’t adopted sooner. It’s impossible to know if those differences could have prevented any given fire, but they cannot help but speculate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, I still think that the results are watered down, and it’s for economic reasons,” said retired Laguna Beach Fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse. “But look at what these fires are costing [PG&E]. 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