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"content": "\u003cp>During his inaugural address last January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made only a passing reference to wildfires and never mentioned the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric. Both soon became inescapable topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721763/pge-just-filed-for-bankruptcy-heres-what-happens-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a> barely three weeks after the Democratic governor was sworn in, triggering a series of events that defined the former San Francisco mayor's first year as leader of the country's most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom worked with state lawmakers to create financial stability for PG&E and the state's two other investor-owned utilities; developed a plan that required them to strengthen their safety measures; and forcefully reacted when the utilities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786405/regulators-launch-new-probe-of-blackouts-imposed-by-pge-and-other-major-utilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut off the lights\u003c/a> to millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11779330 label='Another Governor, Another Power Crisis' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gavin-Newsom-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He certainly had baptism by fire, and I’m not even kidding,” said state Senate leader Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's bankruptcy was prompted by an estimated $30 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760618/newsom-signs-wildfire-liability-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-new-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">liability\u003c/a> from wildfires sparked by its equipment in 2017 and 2018, including the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadliest and most destructive blaze\u003c/a>, which killed 85 and nearly leveled the city of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing further financial consequences, PG&E instituted wide-scale blackouts when weather created high fire danger. In previous years, utility lines and other equipment sparked fires when winds were extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declared he “owned” the blackouts and would fight to keep them from happening again, putting himself squarely in the center of an issue that had prompted a public outcry. He also blasted the utilities for years of poor maintenance and a lax focus on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom has shown a willingness to really engage on a topic that wasn't of his choosing, and that's an important hallmark of a strong governor,\" said Michael Wara, a researcher on climate and energy policy at Stanford University who has worked with the state on energy and wildfire issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman James Gallagher, a Republican whose district includes Paradise, said Newsom has done a good job of changing wildfire policy, fighting to compensate victims and holding PG&E accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor and I don't agree on a whole lot ... but I think that we have found actually a lot of agreement and mutual cooperation when it comes to wildfire policy,\" Gallagher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher even praised Newsom for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707107/the-federal-government-is-behind-you-trump-tours-camp-fire-devastation-with-brown-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working well with the Trump\u003c/a> administration to procure federal disaster resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of this stuff is show,” he said of Newsom's ongoing battles on Twitter and elsewhere with President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11791646,news_11791271,news_11784769\" label=\"Newsom's First Year\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, Newsom's feuds with the Republican president attracted much attention. Perhaps the most consequential was the Trump administration's efforts to stop California from continuing to set its own auto emissions regulations. In response, Newsom teamed with four major automakers to go against Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he wasn't battling with the president, Newsom was advancing policy at a frenetic pace. He began the year by placing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732471/gov-newsom-to-end-death-penalty-by-executive-order-political-fallout-likely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a moratorium on executions\u003c/a> for the more than 730 people on California's death row, the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The move won praise from criminal justice reform advocates and scorn from families of people killed by convicted criminals who had been sentenced to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, he checked off a litany of items in his progressive wish list. Among them: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760187/california-is-1st-state-to-offer-health-benefits-to-adult-undocumented-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health care to more young immigrants\u003c/a> living in the country illegally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721672/newsoms-tactic-not-yet-health-care-for-all-but-health-care-for-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expanded subsidies\u003c/a> for middle-income people to buy health insurance, an increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717355/gavin-newsom-looks-to-spend-and-save-in-first-budget-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax credit\u003c/a> for working families, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776414/california-poised-to-ban-some-for-profit-immigrant-detention-centers-and-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ban\u003c/a> on for-profit prisons, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768464/new-california-law-tightens-rules-for-when-police-can-use-deadly-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stricter rules\u003c/a> for when police use deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the moves drew sharp criticism from the state's Republican minority, and some California residents have started a long-shot \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Gavin_Newsom_recall,_Governor_of_California_(2019)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign\u003c/a> to recall Newsom from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom stumbled at times on message, sowing confusion early on about the future of California's troubled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11740241/as-bullet-train-project-moves-ahead-in-valley-many-residents-still-reluctant-to-get-on-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and injecting last-minute uncertainty into an impassioned debate over exemptions for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792745/scrapping-non-medical-exemptions-increased-california-vaccination-rates-new-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">childhood vaccinations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a fellow Democrat, said it's been a year of learning between Newsom and lawmakers after eight years of dealing with Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had an incredibly productive year, and I consider him a partner, and I know he is willing to work through things,\" Rendon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins, however, found herself at odds with Newsom when he vetoed her bill aimed at blunting environmental rollbacks from the Trump administration. Environmental groups, normally allies, were upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he had some growing pains that were frustrating in the first year,” said Kathryn Phillips, director of the Sierra Club California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">become a top issue in California\u003c/a>, and Trump took delight in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873408/california-asks-trump-for-more-housing-vouchers-to-help-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighting the problem\u003c/a>, saying the state's major cities were “going to hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has touted a\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/05/14/gov-newsoms-budget-has-1-billion-to-address-homelessness-but-advocates-want-more-investment-in-permanent-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> $1 billion investment\u003c/a> the state made in 2019 to address homelessness and the law he signed enacting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773508/california-senate-approves-bill-to-cap-rent-increases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide cap on annual rent increases\u003c/a> to help address the lack of affordable housing. But those moves have yet to produce visible results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"former California Gov. Jerry Brown\"]'I think it's a mistake to look to the first year and draw a lot of big conclusions.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom said in an October interview with The Associated Press that his administration has done more than any other on the two issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can't solve that overnight,” he said. But “we're not being neglectful in that space, and I think the consequences of that will reverberate in cities large and small, but also will leave clues for other states that are struggling with the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher said he thinks Newsom and Democrats have spent too much time focused on failed solutions to homelessness and housing. 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Environmental groups, normally allies, were upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he had some growing pains that were frustrating in the first year,” said Kathryn Phillips, director of the Sierra Club California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792743/hud-report-2-7-uptick-in-nations-homeless-population-due-to-california-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">become a top issue in California\u003c/a>, and Trump took delight in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873408/california-asks-trump-for-more-housing-vouchers-to-help-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighting the problem\u003c/a>, saying the state's major cities were “going to hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has touted a\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/05/14/gov-newsoms-budget-has-1-billion-to-address-homelessness-but-advocates-want-more-investment-in-permanent-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> $1 billion investment\u003c/a> the state made in 2019 to address homelessness and the law he signed enacting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773508/california-senate-approves-bill-to-cap-rent-increases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide cap on annual rent increases\u003c/a> to help address the lack of affordable housing. 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"content": "\u003cp>The state senators grilling the CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. were upset — like millions of other Californians, some spent days in the dark when the nation’s largest utility \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut off power\u003c/a> during windstorms this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmakers demanded that the executive explain why blackouts intended to prevent downed power lines from sparking deadly wildfires caused so much trouble of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explanation CEO Bill Johnson offered the Capitol hearing room: Several smaller outages that PG&E triggered in the year before its debacle began in mid-October went well, giving his company misplaced confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we got a little complacent that we had figured it out,” Johnson testified last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E had not figured it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press review shows widespread problems with the four “public safety power shutoffs” the utility started rolling out in 2018, a year before massive blackouts paralyzed much of California in recent months. Interviews and documents obtained under public records requests reveal persistent failures and broken promises that in some cases compromised public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'PG&E’s recent management of the public safety power shutoffs did not restore public confidence. Instead, PG&E caused extreme uncertainty and harm for Californians who rely on power for their health care and their livelihood.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as PG&E assured regulators it was fixing the problems, the utility kept making many of the same mistakes, further undermining trust after its outdated equipment and negligence has been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/8c922adac3bbadd11225aea64cea1a03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed for fires\u003c/a> that killed nearly 130 people during 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communication, a foundation of emergency management, was poor. PG&E’s notifications of impending outages were haphazard at times, with some sent after the power was already out. Telecommunications companies, water providers and emergency managers did not always receive the early word they needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were surprised that PG&E provided no advanced warning to us,” an official with the city of Oroville’s drinking water provider wrote state regulators about a June outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E made important information hard to get. It was slow to distribute electronic maps showing who would lose power, making it harder for emergency responders to know exactly where to send resources. The utility also balked at providing the addresses of medically needy customers to local officials who planned to check on them in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakdowns afflicted even basic technology. In a region that’s home to Silicon Valley and its thousands of computer programmers and engineers, PG&E had not prepared the website where it posted outage updates for a crush of customers, so it crashed. Tech experts from the state had to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sound quality of some calls PG&E hosted during shutoffs was so poor that emergency responders and legislators had a hard time understanding updates. Even then, not everyone was invited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the future, AT&T requests that it and other communications providers be included on any conference calls providing real time information,” the telecommunications giant protested to regulators after the June shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These and other early failures weren’t widely recognized as harbingers of the issues that would overwhelm PG&E come mid-October, partly because the outages affected rural areas with less political and economic clout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the headline-making shutoffs affected more than 2 million people across much of PG&E’s 70,000-square-mile service territory, the four initial blackouts affected tens of thousands in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills and famed wine valleys. They hit in October 2018 and then in June, September and early October of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who saw trouble building were regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first shutoff was chaotic and the next three were not going according to the guidelines regulators had passed. Commission staff met more frequently with PG&E starting in the spring, using advice and persuasion rather than mandating changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We, as the state, never got to the point where we had complete confidence in PG&E’s ability to execute,” said Elizaveta Malashenko, the top California regulator overseeing blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malashenko, deputy executive director of safety and enforcement policy, told the AP that the commission didn’t act more aggressively because it has to balance punitive intervention with giving utilities a chance to self-correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be some basic operational assumption that you can set up a conference call,” Malashenko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics faulted regulators for not doing enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities commission, a sprawling bureaucracy with a complex rule-making process, was “not aggressive enough early in setting clear requirements and standards,” said Melissa Kasnitz, legal director for the Center for Accessible Technology, which advocates for people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E promised to fix a range of problems promptly, and an executive said it worked hard to deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, that didn’t happen. Not only did the problems continue throughout the smaller shutoffs, but they were replicated on a huge scale starting with the mid-October shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems galled local officials, who vented deep frustration that a utility they often work closely with kept failing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, they are the ones dealing with a shutoff’s consequences. They must dispatch ambulances, run jails and water plants, direct traffic through darkened intersections, set up community shelters and much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost as if it’s intentional disregard of all the warnings we gave them,” said Napa County Supervisor Diane Dillon, whose district has experienced nearly every shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen million people — more than the population of nearly any U.S. state — depend on PG&E for power. The shutoffs were an inconvenience for some and extremely costly for others. For society’s most frail, they brought questions of life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11784435,news_11784017,news_11779153\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779153/its-not-just-lights-and-tvs-outages-shut-off-medical-devices-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rely on medical devices\u003c/a> in their homes were particularly vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E did nothing to help us who depend on electricity to run our life support,” recounted Grace Lin, a polio survivor who needs a ventilator to breathe and uses an electric wheelchair. “It’s not like we could simply grind our teeth and tough it out by holding our breath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said she was confused by the notifications PG&E sent ahead of the first shutoff that affected her San Francisco Bay Area home on Oct. 9. The company website they referred to for updates was frozen. Lin considered herself lucky that she had the means to evacuate 20 miles away, to a quadriplegic friend’s house that had electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E could identify “medical baseline” customers such as Lin based on billing records. Local officials working to identify everyone who might need help repeatedly asked PG&E to share its list, so no one was overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators said PG&E promised it would release medical baseline addresses during a shutoff. Yet when each of the first four hit, PG&E insisted that locals sign a legal agreement not to disclose the addresses, causing delay and uncertainty that regulators said could risk lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eve of the first massive power outage, Malashenko of the utilities commission was urgently emailing company officials in frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue has been discussed many times over the last several months” yet “has once again become an issue with PG&E,” she wrote on Oct. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malashenko said state officials also pushed PG&E to improve in other areas. Starting in April, they met at least weekly with PG&E, pointing out needed improvements and stressing that aspects of the utility’s preparation was inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E argued that the commission’s own privacy rules meant it couldn’t share the addresses without a non-disclosure agreement, spokesman Jeff Smith explained. Resolving the problem took an order that the commission’s executive director sent three hours before the first massive blackouts began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups of vulnerable Californians endured shutoffs without the help they needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them don’t have support, a lot of them don’t have family,” Betty Briggs, 84, said of her elderly neighbors in Calistoga. “It makes it very difficult, and it puts them in danger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs can get around without help, but her husband requires 24-hour care due to dementia. He lives nearby at Cedars Care Home, where seven residents in their 80s and 90s experienced three shutoffs before mid-October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elizaveta Malashenko, the top regulator overseeing blackouts\"]'If we have an outcome that doesn't meet the public expectation and what we need to run as a state, that means that we need to rethink our approach and try something different and drive to a better outcome.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outages created anxiety for people reliant on routine, as well as practical problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beds and wheelchair lifts require electricity. So does the heat and air conditioning. When the freezer got too warm, staff tossed 30 days of backup food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Irais Lopez still hasn't restocked fully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, we only buy small quantities,” Lopez said, “because we don’t know what will happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At PG&E’s high-rise headquarters in downtown San Francisco, the emergency operations center springs to life with each shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees in different colored vests that distinguish their expertise cluster around banks of computer monitors showing real-time updates. Maps track wind speed and direction, as well as which circuits are down. Conversation hums in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where decisions are made and answers can be found — and local officials said they felt they had little access to either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fed up with communication gaps, one hard-hit county requested a presence at PG&E headquarters during the September shutoff. Regulators required that the utility hold seats in its emergency operations center for local representatives, but a lawyer for Sonoma County instead spent her day in a conference room several locked doors away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a lack of understanding on behalf of PG&E of why local government needs timely information,” said Petra Bruggisser, a deputy county counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E already had a shaky reputation in its Northern and central California territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company spent three years in bankruptcy starting in 2001, after California’s attempt to deregulate its power market went awry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintenance failures led to a natural gas pipeline blast near San Francisco in 2010 that killed eight people. PG&E was found criminally liable and paid a $1.6 billion fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2017, its equipment was suspected of starting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> that killed 22 people and destroyed more than 5,600 buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility revealed in spring 2018 that it would start using power shutoffs when fire danger was high and extreme winds blew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E then began to explain what to expect, sending millions of emails to update its customer contact files, running advertising in multiple languages and holding hundreds of meetings with community leaders, public safety agencies and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission started writing guidelines for how utilities should roll out “de-energization.” The guidelines were published as a 176-page document in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that point, PG&E had again filed for bankruptcy protection, crushed by liabilities for fires in 2017 and 2018, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/tag/camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> that nearly wiped out the town of Paradise and killed 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility now has a market value of about $6 billion — a drop of $30 billion in just over two years — and is working with the state and a federal judge to emerge from bankruptcy by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said he expects PG&E’s entire 14-member board of directors, including Johnson, its CEO, to step down before the state will approve the utility’s plan to regain its financial footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E’s recent management of the public safety power shutoffs did not restore public confidence,” the Democratic governor warned the company in a Dec. 13 letter. “Instead, PG&E caused extreme uncertainty and harm for Californians who rely on power for their health care and their livelihood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"power-shutoffs\" label=\"More on PG&E power shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said Johnson was not available for an interview. The utility’s point man on the shutoffs told AP that he believes Johnson, while testifying before lawmakers last month, was referring to its ability to kill and safely restore power to an extremely complex electrical grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumeet Singh, a vice president who oversees PG&E’s community wildfire safety program, listed a litany of ways the utility is investing in fixes that he said will lessen the need for future shutoffs. Those include trimming more vegetation near power lines and burying some lines in areas most at risk of igniting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh also acknowledged that the utility had some struggles during the early shutoffs but that it strove to improve and disputed any characterization that it did not succeed in some ways. He cited how quickly the utility restored power as one improvement, along with the timeliness and accuracy of customer notifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did we hit the mark on every single improvement? No. Do we have more work to do? Yes,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power shutoffs are likely to be a feature of life in California for years to come. PG&E must invest billions in infrastructure upgrades, and communities are spreading into lands once populated by trees and brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators promise to be watching closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have an outcome that doesn't meet the public expectation and what we need to run as a state,” said Malashenko of the utilities commission, “that means that we need to rethink our approach and try something different and drive to a better outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the commission launched an investigation into whether it should sanction PG&E for violating shutoff protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it will need to improve how it reacts after it shuts off the power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we thought the big event was turning off the power,” Johnson told lawmakers. “And I think we focused on that as the main event instead of the impact of that, right, on the people it affected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pritchard reported from Los Angeles. 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Telecommunications companies, water providers and emergency managers did not always receive the early word they needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were surprised that PG&E provided no advanced warning to us,” an official with the city of Oroville’s drinking water provider wrote state regulators about a June outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E made important information hard to get. It was slow to distribute electronic maps showing who would lose power, making it harder for emergency responders to know exactly where to send resources. The utility also balked at providing the addresses of medically needy customers to local officials who planned to check on them in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakdowns afflicted even basic technology. In a region that’s home to Silicon Valley and its thousands of computer programmers and engineers, PG&E had not prepared the website where it posted outage updates for a crush of customers, so it crashed. Tech experts from the state had to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sound quality of some calls PG&E hosted during shutoffs was so poor that emergency responders and legislators had a hard time understanding updates. Even then, not everyone was invited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the future, AT&T requests that it and other communications providers be included on any conference calls providing real time information,” the telecommunications giant protested to regulators after the June shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These and other early failures weren’t widely recognized as harbingers of the issues that would overwhelm PG&E come mid-October, partly because the outages affected rural areas with less political and economic clout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the headline-making shutoffs affected more than 2 million people across much of PG&E’s 70,000-square-mile service territory, the four initial blackouts affected tens of thousands in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills and famed wine valleys. They hit in October 2018 and then in June, September and early October of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who saw trouble building were regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first shutoff was chaotic and the next three were not going according to the guidelines regulators had passed. Commission staff met more frequently with PG&E starting in the spring, using advice and persuasion rather than mandating changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We, as the state, never got to the point where we had complete confidence in PG&E’s ability to execute,” said Elizaveta Malashenko, the top California regulator overseeing blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malashenko, deputy executive director of safety and enforcement policy, told the AP that the commission didn’t act more aggressively because it has to balance punitive intervention with giving utilities a chance to self-correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be some basic operational assumption that you can set up a conference call,” Malashenko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics faulted regulators for not doing enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities commission, a sprawling bureaucracy with a complex rule-making process, was “not aggressive enough early in setting clear requirements and standards,” said Melissa Kasnitz, legal director for the Center for Accessible Technology, which advocates for people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E promised to fix a range of problems promptly, and an executive said it worked hard to deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, that didn’t happen. Not only did the problems continue throughout the smaller shutoffs, but they were replicated on a huge scale starting with the mid-October shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems galled local officials, who vented deep frustration that a utility they often work closely with kept failing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, they are the ones dealing with a shutoff’s consequences. They must dispatch ambulances, run jails and water plants, direct traffic through darkened intersections, set up community shelters and much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost as if it’s intentional disregard of all the warnings we gave them,” said Napa County Supervisor Diane Dillon, whose district has experienced nearly every shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen million people — more than the population of nearly any U.S. state — depend on PG&E for power. The shutoffs were an inconvenience for some and extremely costly for others. 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"content": "\u003cp>Family separations at the border. Anxiety and trauma in young people. Wildfires and power outages. The ever-present fear of the Big One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, we take a look at what you’ve been most interested in reading on KQED — and 2019’s list might initially strike you as a sobering one. Yet amid these serious topics, you also found time to read about personal health and wellness, why artists are underpaid and the very best places to find the ultimate dumpling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our most-read stories on KQED this year:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52994/how-to-help-teenage-girls-reframe-anxiety-and-strengthen-resilience\">How to Help Teenage Girls Reframe Anxiety and Strengthen Resilience\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nKQED’s Mindshift blog (now also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/mindshift\">podcast\u003c/a>) is consistently one of our most-visited, popular with educators and parents alike for its perspectives on the future of learning. This story from February — the most-read on our site in 2019 — explores how some degree of stress and anxiety is not only normal but essential for human growth, and how we can particularly help adolescent girls through life’s tough times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724799/family-separations-flourish-in-homeland-security-grey-area-despite-ban\">Family Separations Continue in Homeland Security ‘Gray Area’ Despite Ban\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFamily separation at the border was a major concern for KQED readers this year. This story from February reported how hundreds of migrant children have been separated from their parents — even after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop the practice in June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11722223/toddler-separated-from-family-at-border-is-returned-in-san-francisco\">Toddler Separated From Family at Border Reunited with Mom in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGiving a personal insight into how family separation impacts individual families, this affecting story detailed the Bay Area reunion between 23-year-old Sindy Ortiz Flores and her 18-month-old daughter, after the child was taken from her father near Calexico by U.S. Border Patrol agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11791863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/girl-thru-glass-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/girl-thru-glass-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/girl-thru-glass-1180x664-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/girl-thru-glass-1180x664-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/girl-thru-glass-1180x664-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52881/why-mindfulness-and-trauma-informed-teaching-dont-always-go-together\">Why Mindfulness And Trauma-Informed Teaching Don’t Always Go Together\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMindfulness is a fast-growing trend and teachers are turning to the practice as a simple way to restore calm to the classroom — but that might not be as simple as it seems. This story explores how some of the ways mindfulness is practiced — sitting still, eyes closed, in silence — can also be triggers for students who have experienced trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949669/map-of-potential-power-shutoffs-in-northern-california-by-pge\">Map: Current PG&E Power Outages\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn October, the beleaguered utility began its historic shutoff program in an effort to prevent destructive fires, affecting millions of California residents — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781060/pge-power-safety-shutoffs-could-continue-for-10-years-says-ceo\">PG&E says that’s just the start\u003c/a>. No wonder so many of you were interested in this map showing which areas would be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949911/map-of-the-kincade-fire-in-sonoma-county\">Map of Kincade Fire in Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Kincade Fire, which ignited outside Geyserville in October, destroyed many structures but thankfully took zero lives. Our map showed readers the fire perimeter, evacuation zones, road closures, emergency shelters and more, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\">a regularly updated list of fire resources from KQED News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A look at some other stories that were hugely popular on KQED this year:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The science stories you read most\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791865\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists say the Hayward Fault is due for another major earthquake. \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1930023/map-heres-your-daily-air-quality-report-for-the-bay-area\">Map: Here’s Your Current Air Quality Report for the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith wildfires becoming California’s “new normal,” the potentially dangerous impact on air quality was clearly a priority for many of you in fire-adjacent areas. Our resources on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\">how to protect yourself from smoke\u003c/a> were also viewed and shared many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1936949/do-little-quakes-mean-the-big-one-is-close-at-hand\">Do Little Earthquakes Mean the Big One Is Close at Hand?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis year brought us several disconcerting shakes, with each one making us think about the terrifying possibilities of a bigger earthquake hitting the Bay Area. It’s unsurprising, therefore, that so many of you wanted this question answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">Prepping for the Next Big Quake, One Hour a Day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMore quake concerns: This time, you turned to KQED Science’s comprehensive guide to prepping your family and your home for a potential major emergency. From evacuation planning to earthquake kits and home improvement, there’s never a bad time to read this guide. Seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The arts and culture cuts you loved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 801px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11792018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/keak.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/keak.png 801w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/keak-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/keak-800x508.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In our interview, rapper Keak Da Sneak worried that California correctional facilities have little compassion for inmates with disabilities. \u003ccite>(Joel Galvan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849409/keak-da-sneak-heads-to-prison-no-compassion-for-disabilities-he-says\">Keak Da Sneak Heads to Prison; ‘No Compassion’ for Disabilities, He Says\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLongtime Bay Area hip-hop fixture Keak Da Sneak was left disabled by a 2017 shooting that placed him in critical condition. In this interview he detailed his concern about the medical care he would receive during his upcoming prison sentence for firearm possession. After KQED broke the story, the rapper’s sentence was delayed: A decision his manager attributed in part to the coverage this story led to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13857471/artist-passion-exploitation-duke-study\">Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Artists being asked to work for “exposure” is a long-running complaint in the creative industry — but what if their passion for their craft was actually being used as a justification for their exploitation? We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13853392/working-for-exposure-audience-survey\">heard from many of you\u003c/a> who read this and shared your experiences, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865555/thirty-seconds-to-mars-jared-leto-started-a-cult-because-of-course-he-did\">Thirty Seconds to Mars’ Jared Leto Started a Cult—Because of Course He Did\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOne of the frankly weirder stories on our site in 2019, this deep dive into actor and musician Jared Leto’s band Thirty Seconds to Mars and their increasingly cultish activities surrounding their fan communities continues to be one of our most-read articles. When, it wonders, does fan devotion begin to resemble something more disconcerting?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The food stories you ate up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/iStock-860957840-1020x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/iStock-860957840-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/iStock-860957840-1020x625-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/iStock-860957840-1020x625-800x490.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What are the best dumplings around the Bay Area? 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No wonder so many of you were interested in this map showing which areas would be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949911/map-of-the-kincade-fire-in-sonoma-county\">Map of Kincade Fire in Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Kincade Fire, which ignited outside Geyserville in October, destroyed many structures but thankfully took zero lives. 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"content": "\u003cp>To Michelle Seifer, the timing was just a coincidence: after losing power in a summer storm, she came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn't until two days later, when a carbon monoxide detector activated and a utility company worker tested levels in her home, that she learned she was being poisoned by the portable generator she had been running in her open garage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I went to the hospital and learned that my levels were high enough where they needed to admit me,\" said Seifer, a finance manager and mother of five in Hartland, Mich. \"Because if I didn't receive the proper treatment for the carbon monoxide poisoning, if I were to fall asleep I wouldn't wake up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two days of oxygen therapy for Seifer's levels to normalize, and several months for other aspects of her life to follow suit. She experienced confusion, dizziness, and vertigo, and missed days of work when her symptoms were bad. She said it is not uncommon for people to live with long-term effects from a single instance of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is like \"silently suffocating to death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain levels, just five minutes of carbon monoxide exposure is \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">enough to be fatal\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">colorless, odorless gas \u003c/a>is produced wherever fuel is burned, and can build to deadly levels especially quickly in enclosed spaces. Portable generators, whose engines each emit as much carbon monoxide as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf\">approximately 450 cars\u003c/a>, are especially common culprits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=news_11784435,news_11788115,news_11787221]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric turned off power to Ana Patricia Rios’ neighborhood in Sonoma County for eight days in October, three at the beginning of the month and five near the end. The mother of three young boys watched twice as nearly all of the food in her refrigerator spoiled. She threw out at least $500 worth of meat, fruit, vegetables, salsas and other food that would have supplied her family with months of meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big impact because we need the food that we lost,” Rios said in Spanish, two days after the lights finally came back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11784017']Similar losses occurred throughout Rios’ wooded, hilly neighborhood, which is mostly home to Hispanic families. Many are vineyard and hospitality workers, and sometimes several families share a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, last weekend, Rios received a PG&E alert that her family might be plunged into the dark once again this week. She decided to cook the one package of meat in her freezer, which is now mostly empty to avoid another colossal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the electricity doesn’t arrive,” she said, “the bills do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters1-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788117\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1200x817.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios picked up food and volunteered at a food distribution at her children’s school in Sonoma County after she lost at least $500 of food during the outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across California, low-income households like the Rios family faced hunger and financial crisis as the food in their refrigerators spoiled during October’s unprecedented, deliberate blackouts. Utility companies shut down the power in certain fire-prone communities during windy, dry conditions to reduce the risk of an electric line sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inconvenience for many, losing hundreds of dollars of food was an economic disaster for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many of the areas that lost power, such as parts of Marin County and the Napa Valley, tend to be wealthier than the rest of the state, tens of thousands of the affected households live on extremely tight budgets, according to a CalMatters analysis of census tracts touched by PG&E’s power outage that began on Oct. 26 and in some cases lasted through Oct. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters’ analysis found that one in 10 residents and one in eight children in the affected census tracts live below the federal poverty level, which is $25,750 of annual income for a family of four. The estimates are based on PG&E’s maps of the approximate areas affected by the shutoffs and averaged data from the 2013 through 2017 annual American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-1020x680.jpg' label='The Power Shutoffs']Several very poor communities lost power. In some of the sections of Vallejo, San Pablo, Berkeley, San Rafael, Santa Cruz, Clearlake, Redding, Arcata and Sonora where the lights went out, more than a third of the people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, people who were unable to replace their spoiled food faced immediate hunger. Many relied on local food banks, some of which lost their own power and had to throw out their food. Some schools had to shut down, so families like the Rioses had to feed children who usually eat free and reduced-price school meals. And many scrambled to pull together the November rent while also refilling their fridges. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-11/pge-power-outage-darkness-stress-debt-vulnerable?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">elderly\u003c/a>, ill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-25/problems-disabled-help-power-outages?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">disabled\u003c/a> struggled the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shutoffs not only taxed our network but deepened hunger among those already food insecure,” Andrew Cheyne, director of government affairs at the California Association of Food Banks, said in a state Senate committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/calendar?startdate=11-18-2019&enddate=11-18-2019\">hearing\u003c/a> on Monday. “We cannot be there for everyone in need, and Californians are not refilling those refrigerators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of hunger triggered by outages continues. On Wednesday morning, PG&E shut off power to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191120_nov_20_psps_update_improved_weather_conditions_reduce_scope_of_psps_event_power_turned_off_for_safety_to_a_total_of_approximately_50000_customers_in_11_counties\">50,000 customers\u003c/a> in 11 Northern California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poverty level of areas affected by PG&E’s Oct. 26 planned blackouts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View larger map\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will families be reimbursed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios was one of more than 2.7 million Californians who lost power during October’s deliberate power outages. PG&E was responsible for most, while Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) each blacked out tens of thousands of customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 480,000 people, including 120,000 children and 81,000 seniors, live in poverty in the affected census tracts. However, that’s an overestimate of the number of poor people who actually lost power, given that many census tracts reach far beyond shutoff zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfire risk persists, how utility companies will protect low-income customers from hunger and financial crisis is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='left' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom']'We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs.'[/pullquote] Gov. Gavin Newsom called the planned outages “unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs,” Newsom told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowing to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-demands-pge-accountability-for-mismanaged-public-safety-power-shutoffs/\">demand\u003c/a> from Newsom, PG&E agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\">provide a one-time rebate\u003c/a> of $100 for households and $250 for businesses affected by the first wave of outages that begin Oct. 9, plunging roughly 738,000 customers into darkness with limited notice and bungled communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But will it meet the losses? In many cases it will not,” Newsom told CalMatters. “And that’s why it’s still inadequate. It was the least they could do under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378\">bill\u003c/a> that would require utilities to reimburse customers for the costs they accrued during planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1920x1321.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson answers questions before the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, along with the warning about this week’s planned shutoff, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191117_pge_monitoring_a_mid-week_potentially_strong_offshore_wind_event\">announced\u003c/a> it would donate $2 million to nonprofits that provide food, water, shelter and other services to “low-income children and families, communities of color, seniors, and tribal members” during disasters and planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most vulnerable among us, those who depend on life-sustaining medical equipment or cannot afford to replace lost food, losing power for an extended period can come with considerable fear and safety risks,” said PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson in prepared remarks at Monday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to narrow the scope and duration of future safety shutoffs and minimizing their customer impact as much as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Families struggle to find food\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two days after the lights came back on, Rios’ family spent Día de Los Muertos — the day after Halloween and her son’s 12th birthday — volunteering at a food distribution at her children’s school in El Verano, an unincorporated community in Sonoma County. They hadn’t celebrated anything yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the kids, no, right now buying a costume is not a necessity. It’s first being able to buy food,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Rios’ job coordinating adult-ed classes and her husband’s job as a gardener, they usually bring in about $3,500 each month. That means they earn $1,000 above the federal poverty level for a family of five. Nevertheless, Rios said it’s a struggle to pull together the money for rent — which consumes nearly half of their income — and for food and monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='left' citation='Maite Iturri, El Verano Elementary School principal']'The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, 'Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend.' These people aren’t going to Tahoe.'[/pullquote]Plus, Rios had missed eight days of work due to the outages. Her husband lost four days of work because of the smoke from the Kincade Fire 40 miles north, which may have been \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/kincade-fire-origin/\">sparked by PG&E equipment\u003c/a>, despite the planned outages. Rios has relied heavily on food bank distributions to feed her family since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day at the El Verano Elementary School, nearly 250 families lined up to replace the food they had lost, filling boxes with potatoes, onions, milk, cheese, eggs and bread trucked in by the Redwood Empire Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve lost all of the foods in their homes because our families can’t afford to buy generators to keep their refrigerators running all night,” said Maite Iturri, the school’s principal. “You end up with some pretty serious situations that are hard for people to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iturri said that 86% of students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at the school, but the meals were not available during the outages because the school was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, ‘Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend,’” Iturri said. “These people aren’t going to Tahoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788122\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families whose food spoiled during the outages pick up fresh produce from a food bank distribution at El Verano Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Sonoma’s reputation as a luxe destination for well-to-do wine lovers, nearly one in three county residents, or about 60,000 households, couldn’t afford three healthy meals a day last year, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about 16,000 households receive food stamps. That means Sonoma County’s main tool for fighting hunger caused by the outages — providing replacement benefits to families on food stamps who had to throw away food — only goes so far. Over 3,000 county residents have claimed replacement food stamps to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 49,000 households received an automatic replacement of food stamp benefits after PG&E’s Oct. 9 outage, amounting to $5,730,774\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>Counties are continuing to accept requests for replacement food stamp benefits from households affected by later outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Chavez, Sonoma County assistant director of human services, lost everything in his own refrigerator during the outages. His wife and four sons drove five hours south to stay with family in Bakersfield, while he stayed to work the county evacuation shelters for the Kincade Fire. He bought most of his meals at restaurants and invested in a generator to keep warm at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows that many Sonoma families couldn’t afford those surprise expenses. Chavez said he was particularly worried about undocumented families, who often don’t qualify for or are reluctant to access safety net benefits and disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is perhaps a new reality for us, the potential of power shutoffs with greater frequency, so I think we’ll want to really think about how we can provide additional safeguards or supports for vulnerable populations,” Chavez said. “We have a lot to learn. This is new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food banks hit hard, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In response to the strains of the outages and other emergencies, the California Association of Food Banks has requested a one-time state investment of $32 million to fund backup power and emergency supply for food banks, said Cheyne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood Empire Food Bank distributed about 300,000 pounds of food to 25,000 people affected by the fire and outages across Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties as of Nov. 8. The San Diego Food Bank distributed $50,000 in cash cards to affected families. In Shasta County, the food bank saw a 34% spike in food demand in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, the Food for People food bank lost power twice last month for a total of four days, said Executive Director Anne Holcomb.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It serves about 10% of the roughly 136,000 residents of Humboldt County, where one in five people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With almost no advance notice before the first 24-hour outage on Oct. 9, the food bank was able to load most perishables into refrigerated trucks, but had to throw out 60 pounds of meat and nearly 3,000 eggs, Holcomb said. That first round of outages, though shorter, led to the largest losses, because many of the county’s poorest residents had just done a big food shop after receiving their food stamps or Social Security checks on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11779299']“Particularly if you’re already living close to the edge financially, if you just bought $30 or $40 worth of groceries and it goes bad, that’s a significant loss,” Holcomb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether utilities violated regulations by failing to properly notify customers of the outages is the focus of an \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M319/K527/319527577.PDF\">investigation that the California Public Utilities Commission opened last week. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one way (the utilities) can prevent food loss is letting customers know in advance,” said Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves. “It’s clear that there’s been an impact here that could have been reduced from my perspective if there had been proper noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eating the food during the outages could make people sick because bacteria can build up without refrigeration. During an outage, most food will stay cold for no more than four hours in a refrigerator and two days in a freezer, according to federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/d3506874-2867-4190-a941-d511d3fcae71/Keep_Your_Food_Safe_During_Emergencies.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s very hard for people to have to sacrifice all this food,” said Linda Harris, a food microbiologist at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of eating spoiled food include vomiting and diarrhea. “If you think that there’s a risk, then throwing it away is the safest thing to do,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the next blackout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios said she changed the way she shops. “I learned to no longer buy in volume.” It’s more expensive to shop every few days, especially because she generally drives about an hour to find the best prices. But her family can’t afford to empty out a full freezer again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788124\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1200x913.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1920x1461.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios puts away folding tables after volunteering at a food distribution for families like hers that were affected by the power outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having lived through the terror-filled evacuations of the North Bay fires two years earlier, she understands why utilities cut power to prevent wildfire. But she doubts whether PG&E had taken into account how families are affected and whether the shutoffs actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think if it’s for your safety, to prevent a bigger disaster, that’s good,” said Rios. “At the same time, it doesn’t make sense because we see that the accidents keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Gov. Gavin Newsom called the planned outages “unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs,” Newsom told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowing to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-demands-pge-accountability-for-mismanaged-public-safety-power-shutoffs/\">demand\u003c/a> from Newsom, PG&E agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\">provide a one-time rebate\u003c/a> of $100 for households and $250 for businesses affected by the first wave of outages that begin Oct. 9, plunging roughly 738,000 customers into darkness with limited notice and bungled communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But will it meet the losses? In many cases it will not,” Newsom told CalMatters. “And that’s why it’s still inadequate. It was the least they could do under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378\">bill\u003c/a> that would require utilities to reimburse customers for the costs they accrued during planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1920x1321.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson answers questions before the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, along with the warning about this week’s planned shutoff, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191117_pge_monitoring_a_mid-week_potentially_strong_offshore_wind_event\">announced\u003c/a> it would donate $2 million to nonprofits that provide food, water, shelter and other services to “low-income children and families, communities of color, seniors, and tribal members” during disasters and planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most vulnerable among us, those who depend on life-sustaining medical equipment or cannot afford to replace lost food, losing power for an extended period can come with considerable fear and safety risks,” said PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson in prepared remarks at Monday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to narrow the scope and duration of future safety shutoffs and minimizing their customer impact as much as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Families struggle to find food\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two days after the lights came back on, Rios’ family spent Día de Los Muertos — the day after Halloween and her son’s 12th birthday — volunteering at a food distribution at her children’s school in El Verano, an unincorporated community in Sonoma County. They hadn’t celebrated anything yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the kids, no, right now buying a costume is not a necessity. It’s first being able to buy food,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Rios’ job coordinating adult-ed classes and her husband’s job as a gardener, they usually bring in about $3,500 each month. That means they earn $1,000 above the federal poverty level for a family of five. Nevertheless, Rios said it’s a struggle to pull together the money for rent — which consumes nearly half of their income — and for food and monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Rios has relied heavily on food bank distributions to feed her family since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day at the El Verano Elementary School, nearly 250 families lined up to replace the food they had lost, filling boxes with potatoes, onions, milk, cheese, eggs and bread trucked in by the Redwood Empire Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve lost all of the foods in their homes because our families can’t afford to buy generators to keep their refrigerators running all night,” said Maite Iturri, the school’s principal. “You end up with some pretty serious situations that are hard for people to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iturri said that 86% of students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at the school, but the meals were not available during the outages because the school was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, ‘Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend,’” Iturri said. “These people aren’t going to Tahoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788122\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families whose food spoiled during the outages pick up fresh produce from a food bank distribution at El Verano Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Sonoma’s reputation as a luxe destination for well-to-do wine lovers, nearly one in three county residents, or about 60,000 households, couldn’t afford three healthy meals a day last year, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about 16,000 households receive food stamps. That means Sonoma County’s main tool for fighting hunger caused by the outages — providing replacement benefits to families on food stamps who had to throw away food — only goes so far. Over 3,000 county residents have claimed replacement food stamps to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 49,000 households received an automatic replacement of food stamp benefits after PG&E’s Oct. 9 outage, amounting to $5,730,774\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>Counties are continuing to accept requests for replacement food stamp benefits from households affected by later outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Chavez, Sonoma County assistant director of human services, lost everything in his own refrigerator during the outages. His wife and four sons drove five hours south to stay with family in Bakersfield, while he stayed to work the county evacuation shelters for the Kincade Fire. He bought most of his meals at restaurants and invested in a generator to keep warm at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows that many Sonoma families couldn’t afford those surprise expenses. Chavez said he was particularly worried about undocumented families, who often don’t qualify for or are reluctant to access safety net benefits and disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is perhaps a new reality for us, the potential of power shutoffs with greater frequency, so I think we’ll want to really think about how we can provide additional safeguards or supports for vulnerable populations,” Chavez said. “We have a lot to learn. 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They have failed us too many times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executives from all three companies faced questions as they detailed the work they’ve done to try and reduce the risk of wildfires caused by their equipment — but the smallest provider, SDG&E, which has made the most significant strides toward guarding its system against fires, was the clear favorite of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, it was clear that PG&E officials were in the hot seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all three utilities have sparked wildfires with their equipment, PG&E has caused the most deadly and destructive fires in state history in recent years, including the Camp Fire, which decimated the Butte County town of Paradise just over a year ago. The company opted in January to file for bankruptcy protection as it grappled with tens of billions of dollars in liability costs related to those blazes. 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