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"content": "\u003cp>Stacey Milbern didn't lose power during the recent blackouts, but if she had, things could have gotten dicey fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milbern, whose East Oakland apartment was just outside PG&E's public safety power shutoff zone, has muscular dystrophy and uses a ventilator to breathe. For her and other members of the disability community — many of whom depend on electrical devices like ventilators, CPAP machines and wheelchairs — losing power signifies much more than just an inconvenience: It can be life-threatening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Stacey Milbern\"]'We believe this is a life-or-death issue. ... 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In some cases, volunteers even helped residents seal doors and windows and build makeshift box-fan purifiers to keep out smoke from the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> burning in Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the group supported 32 families, mostly from the East Bay, with more than 90 people offering housing or rides, she said. Milbern herself hosted four other people with disabilities in her small but electrified apartment, which served as a impromptu operations base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe this is a life-or-death issue. We don’t want our people to die or wind up institutionalized,\" she said. \"People with the least resources are banding together to help one another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local effort comes amid reports of vulnerable Bay Area residents who were largely neglected during the shutoffs, including at least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers who were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/0d32cb3d9d1c4d83976d7b167f38dd72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trapped in the dark\u003c/a> for two days in a low-income apartment complex in Novato, and largely left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E was widely criticized for how it handled the first round of shutoffs in early October, when its website crashed and scores of customers complained of not receiving sufficient communications or assistance. 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The company, she said, was willing to offer only $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not enough to purchase two batteries,\" she said. \"$50,000 is a minuscule amount they could easily make. Their reluctance to do so further demonstrates their lack of accountability and concern for their most vulnerable customers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, PG&E said it did everything in its power to reach out to its medical baseline customers before and during the outages, sending a string of automated calls, texts and emails, and knocking on doors of customers who couldn't be reached otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we need to turn off power for safety, we make every effort to notify baseline customers of the shutoff before it occurs,” said Megan McFarland, a PG&E spokeswoman. \"If those customers didn’t get notifications, we want to hear from them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility, she added, has been working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsilc.ca.gov/independent-locator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Independent Living Centers\u003c/a> throughout its vast service area to establish protocols and determine how to best support baseline customers during shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"disability-rights\"]\"I do not envy [PG&E's] position,” said Ana Acton, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://freed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FREED Center for Independent Living\u003c/a> in Grass Valley, which serves elderly and disability communities in five counties in the Northern California foothills, a region hit hard by last month's outages. \"It’s not an easy place for them to be in. 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That includes an online \u003ca href=\"https://sdaction.networkforgood.com/projects/83846-powertolive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraising drive\u003c/a>, a plan to establish networks of hubs in people's homes and at satellite locations and creating a map of local resources and support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I figured if 200, 300, 400 disabled people share with us their needs, that’s being organized,\" she said. \"A lot of activism work is trying to shift people to think about interdependence rather than independence. I believe if you view the needs of the most marginalized people impacted by an issue, then ultimately the entire community benefits.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People aren’t used to thinking about what they need in emergencies,\" said Milbern, a disability rights activist whose day job is in human resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, the multiple power shutoffs in October served as a stark reminder that as these events become more common, people with disabilities can't simply depend on emergency assistance from PG&E or local government agencies — they need to band together and pool resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Milbern helped form #PowerToLive, a grassroots campaign launched on the fly in the days leading up to the Oct. 26 blackout. Adapted from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779283/how-the-disabled-community-supported-each-other-when-the-power-went-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mutual aid spreadsheet\u003c/a> that had been circulated during the first outage earlier in October, the recent effort includes an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0--5Dn5cw9QWi0SxNt9Kdylbiu4NqqOIUvVxxWfztXToDsQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online form\u003c/a> where people can request or offer assistance. The group also developed an extensive, crowd-sourced \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/18HoGaGluv92o9H4L1_QUGbHETQjhD1-5ANqV1aEoDmo/edit#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survival guide\u003c/a> \"for folks who need #PowerToLive during a power shutoff,\" detailing everything from tips for keeping insulin and other temperature-sensitive medications cool, to a rundown of different kinds of in-home generators and batteries to choose from and the hourly wattage required to power different types of devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11785104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2235-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graphic posted on the group's social media feeds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stacey Milbern)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the late October round of shutoffs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783228/with-massive-blackout-still-in-place-pge-considers-yet-another-preemptive-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that hit multiple Bay Area communities\u003c/a>, including parts of Oakland, Berkeley and Hayward, Milbern and her group of about 20 other volunteers monitored submissions to the online form closely, trying to quickly connect those in need with rides, places to stay and extra cash. In some cases, volunteers even helped residents seal doors and windows and build makeshift box-fan purifiers to keep out smoke from the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> burning in Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the group supported 32 families, mostly from the East Bay, with more than 90 people offering housing or rides, she said. Milbern herself hosted four other people with disabilities in her small but electrified apartment, which served as a impromptu operations base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe this is a life-or-death issue. We don’t want our people to die or wind up institutionalized,\" she said. \"People with the least resources are banding together to help one another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local effort comes amid reports of vulnerable Bay Area residents who were largely neglected during the shutoffs, including at least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers who were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/0d32cb3d9d1c4d83976d7b167f38dd72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trapped in the dark\u003c/a> for two days in a low-income apartment complex in Novato, and largely left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E was widely criticized for how it handled the first round of shutoffs in early October, when its website crashed and scores of customers complained of not receiving sufficient communications or assistance. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Justin Lane and his family prepared for the recent PG&E power shutoffs at their home in Sonoma County, they counted on using their cellphones to get emergency notifications and updates about the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> that had erupted in their area days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='State Sen. Mike McGuire']‘Cellphones aren’t just about checking the latest Facebook status. It’s about life or death. Cellphones are our lifeline during these power outages and during emergencies.’[/pullquote]But then, Lane, his wife and their two little girls found themselves in the dark on Saturday, Oct. 26 — power and communications, too. They’d relied on the emergency Nixle and SoCo alerts during the 2017 North Bay fires that devastated communities near their own, but now had no idea if they needed to evacuate or what was happening with the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, they were basically unusable,” Lane, 40, a home inspector from Cotati, said of the alerts — some that came in sporadically, though they couldn’t open links to read them. “You can’t rely on that when you don’t have internet … . It’s really not a reliable means of keeping people informed anymore as much as we thought it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Lane and his family experienced was a problem that officials have been worrying about for years: the lack of backup power for cell towers — and no federal or state requirement that telecom companies provide it. In the wake of the power cuts, 23 members of the state’s congressional delegation have \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/GP5fCrkYKnfArXNVsza79w?domain=eshoo.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called\u003c/a> for a hearing into the broader communications failures, and the California Public Utilities Commission said it’s investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cell Coverage Problems Peak Locally\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Major telecom providers said they deployed backup power sources and maintained service for most of their customers.[/pullquote]In the Bay Area, the cell problems peaked on Monday Oct. 28, with 57% of towers \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-360482A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out\u003c/a> in Marin County, 27% in Sonoma and 19% in Napa County — mostly due to power issues, according to voluntary information \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-1073A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submitted\u003c/a> by telecom providers to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened as PG&E prepared for widespread back-to-back shutoffs — meaning that some of its customers who were already in the dark, like Lane, wouldn’t get power restored until after the second outage (his family got it back after five days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cell problems continued throughout the week. What this translated into for some people on the ground in places like Marin, Sonoma and Alameda counties: No coverage — unless they traveled to find power, no emergency notifications (including from schools about closures), or sporadic text messages coming through, though it was unclear if they were timely or dated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 3% of towers went out during the height of the power cuts last Monday as fires raged in Northern and Southern California. FCC said the number of cell site outages didn’t necessarily correspond to the availability of wire service since providers can lean on other tools, like roaming agreements and mobile towers on wheels, to provide coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California according to data voluntary provided by telecoms companies to the Federal Communications Commission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1020x773.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1200x909.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California, according to data voluntarily provided by telecom companies to the Federal Communications Commission. \u003ccite>(FCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s congressional representatives and the CPUC said the problems were nothing new, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUC_Public_Website/Content/Utilities_and_Industries/Communications_-_Telecommunications_and_Broadband/Consumer_Programs/Service_Quality/StormsReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failures\u003c/a> during the historic 2017 storms and the North Bay Fires later that year, plus last year’s Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/Content/Hot_Topics/R1803011%20Motion%20of%20Public%20Advocates%20Office%20for%20an%20Immediate%20Order%20Requiring%20Communications%20Providers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn’t require\u003c/a> wireless providers to have emergency backup power sources, nor does the CPUC, said Ana Maria Johnson, program manager at the Public Advocates Office, an independent group within the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duration of the several PG&E power shutoffs in October — some lasting many days — highlighted “how unprepared the utilities (telecom companies) are to ensure continuous services during these long durations of no power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='U.S. Cellular']‘Had the power outages gone on for much longer, getting access to fuel to keep our generators running would have been a significant issue we believe.’[/pullquote] State Sen. McGuire, whose district covers the North Coast from Marin County to the Oregon border, \u003ca href=\"https://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2019-10-30-senator-mcguire%E2%80%99s-legislation-force-telecoms-have-backup-power-cell-sites-proves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill earlier this year to require a minimum of 48 hours of backup power at cellphone towers in high-fire-threat areas. The Legislature will take that bill up again in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire said telecom executives in June assured him that what happened with the cell towers last week wouldn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cellphones aren’t just about checking the latest Facebook status. It’s about life or death. Cellphones are our lifeline during these power outages and during emergencies,” McGuire said last week. “For too many years, the state and federal governments have relied on the industry to do the right thing voluntarily. And it’s become crystal clear that simply asking them to voluntarily commit to backup power doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1200x659.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CPUC spokesman Christopher Chow said the commission was investigating the problems and developing requirements for providers, but that the communications industry is arguing that the CPUC does not have the \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M309/K755/309755387.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authority\u003c/a> to regulate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JRosenworcel/status/119028369966280704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the federal agency also needed to investigate the cell tower failures in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it does it needs to reckon with how rolling back regulations and not requiring backup power have made it harder to reach out in disaster,” she said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC didn’t respond to a KQED request for comment about whether it was considering requiring such a backup in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Telecoms Scramble for Backup Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telecom providers told KQED they deployed backup power sources like fixed and permanent generators that ran off fuel, plus batteries, in some areas during the shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Justin Lane, 40, of Cotati']‘I don’t see how they can fix it. The cellphone companies rely on the same power for the most part that we do. And if they’re out for an extended amount of time, then I’m expecting this to happen again.’[/pullquote] AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon said they maintained service for most of their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T-Mobile said some of its customers in Sonoma, Contra Costa, Alameda and Marin counties may have had issues with its service. Sprint said a number of sites may have experienced disruptions, but that “our teams refueled generators that were in use as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Cellular, which had nine cell towers impacted at the peak of the shutoff, said its customers in Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino and Plumas counties were most impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The utility shutdown was so unexpectedly widespread that most of our network had to rely on backup power at some point in time and we did not have enough power sources to cover all of our cell sites,” the company said Tuesday in a statement. “Had the power outages gone on for much longer, getting access to fuel to keep our generators running would have been a significant issue we believe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' label='Related Coverage']AT&T said it dispatched hundreds of additional generators and technicians from across the country before the power cuts and did have some equipment get damaged in the Kincade Fire. During the shutoffs, T-Mobile said it deployed (and refueled) generators to more than 260 sites, and Verizon said it had generators and backup batteries at the majority of its cell towers — though “discrete areas” of its network would “experience service disruption or degradation” due to topographical and other technological constraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though most cell towers have some type of backup, McGuire said, “Here’s what we know: It’s not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cell customers, the telecom providers plans’ and backups don’t provide much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane, a Verizon customer, said that, moving forward, he was going to “brace for the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how they can fix it,” he added. “The cellphone companies rely on the same power for the most part that we do. And if they’re out for an extended amount of time, then I’m expecting this to happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News’ Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Did you have trouble with your cellphone service? Share your story with the reporter: mleitsinger@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the cell problems peaked on Monday Oct. 28, with 57% of towers \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-360482A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out\u003c/a> in Marin County, 27% in Sonoma and 19% in Napa County — mostly due to power issues, according to voluntary information \u003ca href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-1073A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submitted\u003c/a> by telecom providers to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened as PG&E prepared for widespread back-to-back shutoffs — meaning that some of its customers who were already in the dark, like Lane, wouldn’t get power restored until after the second outage (his family got it back after five days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cell problems continued throughout the week. What this translated into for some people on the ground in places like Marin, Sonoma and Alameda counties: No coverage — unless they traveled to find power, no emergency notifications (including from schools about closures), or sporadic text messages coming through, though it was unclear if they were timely or dated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 3% of towers went out during the height of the power cuts last Monday as fires raged in Northern and Southern California. FCC said the number of cell site outages didn’t necessarily correspond to the availability of wire service since providers can lean on other tools, like roaming agreements and mobile towers on wheels, to provide coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California according to data voluntary provided by telecoms companies to the Federal Communications Commission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1020x773.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut-1200x909.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-11.33.18-AM-qut.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the cell site outages on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in California, according to data voluntarily provided by telecom companies to the Federal Communications Commission. \u003ccite>(FCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s congressional representatives and the CPUC said the problems were nothing new, citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUC_Public_Website/Content/Utilities_and_Industries/Communications_-_Telecommunications_and_Broadband/Consumer_Programs/Service_Quality/StormsReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failures\u003c/a> during the historic 2017 storms and the North Bay Fires later that year, plus last year’s Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/Content/Hot_Topics/R1803011%20Motion%20of%20Public%20Advocates%20Office%20for%20an%20Immediate%20Order%20Requiring%20Communications%20Providers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn’t require\u003c/a> wireless providers to have emergency backup power sources, nor does the CPUC, said Ana Maria Johnson, program manager at the Public Advocates Office, an independent group within the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duration of the several PG&E power shutoffs in October — some lasting many days — highlighted “how unprepared the utilities (telecom companies) are to ensure continuous services during these long durations of no power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> State Sen. McGuire, whose district covers the North Coast from Marin County to the Oregon border, \u003ca href=\"https://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2019-10-30-senator-mcguire%E2%80%99s-legislation-force-telecoms-have-backup-power-cell-sites-proves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced\u003c/a> a bill earlier this year to require a minimum of 48 hours of backup power at cellphone towers in high-fire-threat areas. The Legislature will take that bill up again in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire said telecom executives in June assured him that what happened with the cell towers last week wouldn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cellphones aren’t just about checking the latest Facebook status. It’s about life or death. Cellphones are our lifeline during these power outages and during emergencies,” McGuire said last week. “For too many years, the state and federal governments have relied on the industry to do the right thing voluntarily. And it’s become crystal clear that simply asking them to voluntarily commit to backup power doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut-1200x659.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/11062019_emergency-alerts-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots of emergency notifications during the PG&E power shutoffs. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CPUC spokesman Christopher Chow said the commission was investigating the problems and developing requirements for providers, but that the communications industry is arguing that the CPUC does not have the \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M309/K755/309755387.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authority\u003c/a> to regulate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JRosenworcel/status/119028369966280704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the federal agency also needed to investigate the cell tower failures in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it does it needs to reckon with how rolling back regulations and not requiring backup power have made it harder to reach out in disaster,” she said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC didn’t respond to a KQED request for comment about whether it was considering requiring such a backup in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Telecoms Scramble for Backup Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telecom providers told KQED they deployed backup power sources like fixed and permanent generators that ran off fuel, plus batteries, in some areas during the shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E initiated several large-scale \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power blackouts\u003c/a> in October aimed at preventing its equipment from sparking potentially catastrophic wildfires amid critically dry and windy conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's power cuts, officially called public safety power shutoffs, left millions of Californians in the dark for days on end and without power for their medical devices, water heaters, refrigerators, stoves, electronic devices and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people were left in the cold, literally, and kids have missed days of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783884/tell-us-how-have-the-pge-power-shutoffs-impacted-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked\u003c/a> for your stories, and here are some of them. We'll add more stories as we get them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"I just lost my mother and have been making her arrangements in San Diego County while going through this power outage and the threat of another fire. Not only has my home been without power but my work was shut down, too, requiring me to commute 2.5 hrs each way to a sister location in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Melanie, Shingle Springs in El Dorado']'We could not bathe or keep warm. We are now trying to figure out how we will get caught up with our bills.'[/pullquote]\"I'm in an area impacted by the '17 Nuns Fire in Glen Ellen. Having the challenges and inconveniences of no power, no hot water and no heat on 35-degree mornings and having to show up clean, dressed and fed for a workday in the midst of my grief has been compounded by not being able to find comfort at home. The traumatic reminders of smoke and wind like the wildfires we experienced previously has been a less-than-perfect storm.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Mary, Glen Ellen in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our son and daughter-in-law were evacuated from Larkfield and are staying with us in Bennett Valley. We are without electricity. Their adorable 14-year-old cat, upset by the move, is now in intensive care at a local veterinary hospital due to kidney failure because he refused to eat or drink for three days in his unfamiliar surroundings. Joey means everything to them. He’s a rescue kitty with a charming, loving personality. We’re hoping for the best for him.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Carole Robison, Santa Rosa in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784180\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11784180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Joey the cat before the PG&E power shutoffs in late October.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey the cat before the PG&E power shutoffs in late October. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Catherine Robison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Four days without power. Had no cell service for most of Sunday, so no ability to contact anyone without meeting them in person. Lost all food in the fridge and freezer. Though I'm a salaried employee, I'll likely have to use vacation time to get paid or go without pay — not helpful with property taxes coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obvious inconvenience: huge crowds at local charging stations, extra time to get around town with no street lighting, low to no supplies at the few stores open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bright spot: people have been amazing. I'm grateful to my city and county for trying to keep things running (through charging stations and other support services) as best they can under the circumstances. The county has done a great job in trying to provide communications to residents about events and next steps, certainly more communicative and timely than PG&E. All told, this cannot be the new normal.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Kimberly Andrade, San Rafael in Marin County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11784132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Alecxander Cooper, 13, of Shingle Springs, does homework by headlamp in one of PG&E's power shutoffs in October.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-1200x919.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alecxander Cooper, 13, of Shingle Springs, does homework by headlamp in one of PG&E's power shutoffs in October. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stacey Cooper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Gold Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' label='Related Coverage']\"Our kids have missed 7 days of school. We had no child care because our daycare provider had no power, so we were scrambling to find a family member that could watch them or we took the day off. We’re fortunate to have that choice and be minimally impacted. Oh — and we’re out for the $1,200 generator we had to buy to run the fridge so our food didn’t spoil.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Heather, Placerville in El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At my age, 84, walking around in the dark with a flashlight was dangerous. My balance is mostly visual now. The house was strung with power cords that could trip me so I had to be careful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did have fun getting our old generator back in operation. Had to spark the gen to get it delivering juice. Thank God for the internet that showed me how to do that (don't try this at home!!!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The horses didn't notice. Life always just keeps going on for them as long as they have feed and water. Not like humans who like to bitch about everything. Ah the fun and pleasure of country living.\"\u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Mike Harper, Cool in El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11779288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candle-lit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma on Oct. 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by the Pacific Gas & Electric utility company.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candlelit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma on Oct. 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by PG&E. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My mom is a dialysis patient who needs treatment three times a week. 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So I had to up the phone plan, which will cost me now forever just so we had phones.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Melanie, Shingle Springs in El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Mike Harper, Cool in El Dorado County']'I did have fun getting our old generator back in operation. Had to spark the gen to get it delivering juice. Thank God for the internet that showed me how to do that (don't try this at home!).'[/pullquote]\"We've spent 35% of the month of October in the dark without running water or a source of heat. There were many mornings when we woke up and the house was 63 degrees or colder. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"I'm in an area impacted by the '17 Nuns Fire in Glen Ellen. Having the challenges and inconveniences of no power, no hot water and no heat on 35-degree mornings and having to show up clean, dressed and fed for a workday in the midst of my grief has been compounded by not being able to find comfort at home. The traumatic reminders of smoke and wind like the wildfires we experienced previously has been a less-than-perfect storm.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Mary, Glen Ellen in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our son and daughter-in-law were evacuated from Larkfield and are staying with us in Bennett Valley. We are without electricity. Their adorable 14-year-old cat, upset by the move, is now in intensive care at a local veterinary hospital due to kidney failure because he refused to eat or drink for three days in his unfamiliar surroundings. Joey means everything to them. He’s a rescue kitty with a charming, loving personality. We’re hoping for the best for him.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Carole Robison, Santa Rosa in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784180\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11784180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Joey the cat before the PG&E power shutoffs in late October.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10312019_joey-the-cat_pge-shutoffs_catherine-robison-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey the cat before the PG&E power shutoffs in late October. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Catherine Robison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Four days without power. Had no cell service for most of Sunday, so no ability to contact anyone without meeting them in person. Lost all food in the fridge and freezer. Though I'm a salaried employee, I'll likely have to use vacation time to get paid or go without pay — not helpful with property taxes coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obvious inconvenience: huge crowds at local charging stations, extra time to get around town with no street lighting, low to no supplies at the few stores open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bright spot: people have been amazing. I'm grateful to my city and county for trying to keep things running (through charging stations and other support services) as best they can under the circumstances. The county has done a great job in trying to provide communications to residents about events and next steps, certainly more communicative and timely than PG&E. All told, this cannot be the new normal.\" \u003cem> — \u003cstrong>Kimberly Andrade, San Rafael in Marin County\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11784132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Alecxander Cooper, 13, of Shingle Springs, does homework by headlamp in one of PG&E's power shutoffs in October.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff-1200x919.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Homework-by-headlamp-pge-power-shutoff.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alecxander Cooper, 13, of Shingle Springs, does homework by headlamp in one of PG&E's power shutoffs in October. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stacey Cooper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Gold Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E says that in the aftermath of its vast preemptive power outage in early October that it found dozens of locations on its electrical network where trees or equipment failures likely would have caused lines to arc — a condition that could lead to sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s analysis, delivered in response to a directive from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, disclosed 13 instances of likely arc-producing damage in the fire-prone Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Pacific Gas and Electric Power Shutoffs\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had reported finding more than 100 instances of damage to the 25,000 miles of electrical lines taken out of service during the blackout, which affected about 729,000 customers in 35 counties during a period of extreme fire weather between Oct. 9 and Oct. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that any one of these instances could have been a potential source of ignition had a PSPS (public safety power shutoff) not been initiated,” the company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191014_15_things_you_need_to_know_about_pges_oct_9-12_public_safety_power_shutoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Oct. 14 press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release was issued the same day Alsup, who is overseeing the company’s criminal probation for violating federal pipeline safety laws, directed the company to tell him how many of those reported episodes involved damage that would have caused lines to arc and thus pose a dramatically heightened risk of sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief report filed with the court Wednesday, PG&E said it found a total of 115 sites where damage had occurred — 74 involving wind-whipped trees or branches that had come into contact with power lines and 41 involving wind damage to equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said 44 cases of vegetation-related damage and a dozen cases of infrastructure damage could have led its lines to arc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing acknowledged that the company has no way of determining with any degree of certainty whether arcing would actually have occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has said that inspections following its most widespread preemptive blackouts, which began last Saturday night, have uncovered at least 127 instances of damage to its lines and other equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E elected to turn off power to 970,000 customers — an estimated 2.5 million people — to avoid sparking fires during a prolonged episode of high winds and very dry weather. 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Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday — and PG&E CEO Bill Johnson confirmed — that the utility will grant credits to the 728,980 customers who were cut off from electricity during the wide-reaching public safety power shutoff from Oct. 9 through Oct. 12. 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Our back-of-the-envelope estimate of how much the credits will cost the company: about $90 million, based on a guess that 85% of customers affected Oct. 9-12 were residential and 15% were businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next fight over the shutoffs and their impact on customers: Whether PG&E and the other big utilities should be allowed to charge people for periods when their power has been turned off. 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It will also take steps to ensure that the utilities do not charge customers for periods when their power has been turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC says the inquiry will look into whether utilities — and especially PG&E – have complied with state regulations, raising the possibility the companies may face fines or other penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom applauded the CPUC probe — and said he’s hoping the commission curbs the extensive use of blackouts to manage the state’s wildfire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see the CPUC launch a total reform of power shutoff rules and regulations,” Newsom said in a statement. “Utilities must be held accountable and be aggressively penalized for their overreliance on PSPS, and the product of this investigation must be new rules and regulations to do that. I also want to see customers not charged for PSPS. It seems obvious, but under the current rules, utilities can do just that. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:40 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30:\u003c/strong> PG&E carried out its third preemptive power shutdown in a week Tuesday as the latest in a series of critical fire weather events descended on Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the utility said in a series of statements late Tuesday and early Wednesday that the blackouts, designed to prevent electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, had been reduced in scope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility had said that about 596,000 customers in 29 counties would have their power turned off beginning early Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mark Quinlan, the PG&E director of wildfire operations serving as incident commander for the public safety power shutoffs, said in a briefing Tuesday evening the company had decided to cancel a planned outage for about 67,000 customers in Humboldt County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Wednesday, the company said in a tweet that \"favorable weather conditions\" prompted it to cancel an outage planned for 30,000 customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes in the blackout plan meant about half a million customers – or about 1.2 million residents in PG&E's service area – were without power. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11778663\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest round of deliberate outages began before dawn Tuesday in Trinity, Shasta, Butte, Tehama and Plumas counties in Northern California. Communities in three North Bay counties — Sonoma, Napa and Solano — were taken offline shortly afterward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Marin County was not so straightforward. PG&E initially said that it would cut power to virtually all customers in the county around 11 p.m. Tuesday. But by Tuesday morning, that estimate had changed — first to 7 a.m., then to 8 a.m. But the outage didn't occur as the company had described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11:30 a.m., Laine Hendricks, the county's public information officer, said the new round of blackouts appeared not to have begun and that PG&E was actually restoring power to customers who had been shut off during the weekend's vast outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That weekend outage covered about 120,000 Marin customers — nearly every home, business and public facility in the county. Hendricks said the utility had reconnected about 53,000 customers by midafternoon Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My latest communication from PG&E is that it (the shutoff time) still varies,\" Hendricks said. \"I guess there's a number of factors at play. And if they don't have to cut off the power, they're trying not to. They're dealing with obviously a potential weather event. And they're also there monitoring the situation just north of us in Sonoma,\" mostly relating to the Kincade Fire's impact on power facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, those various factors, which are still very fluid at this point, is why we don't have any certainty on a possible de-energization timeline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Tuesday, the Fairfax Police Department sent out a Nixle alert saying \"PG&E states that Marin is currently outside the scope of the next general PSPS that begins today.\" The alert also said PG&E was experiencing problems with a substation in the county and that power could be shut off if the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County threatened transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the Marin confusion, Quinlan, the PG&E's incident commander, said the uncertainty was due to \"some operational related constraints\" related to high-voltage transmission equipment in Sonoma County's Kincade Fire area and other parts of the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinlan added that an \"all clear\" had been declared for the five Northern California counties where blackouts began early Tuesday. An all clear was expected for most of the rest of the blackout zone by 8 a.m. Wednesday. The one exception: a small pocket of about 1,000 PG&E customers in Kern County's Tehachapi range, where Santa Ana conditions were expected to continue through Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather event prompting the preventive shutoffs is a resumption of high, extremely dry winds that has prompted the National Weather Service to post \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a red flag warning\u003c/a> for most of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1189176198208688129\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sustained winds of 45 to 50 mph were recorded Tuesday afternoon and early evening in the Sonoma County hills, where more than 4,000 firefighters continue to battle the Kincade Fire. Even higher gusts — accompanied by humidity levels of 10% or lower — are forecast for later Tuesday and early Wednesday before red flag fire conditions ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said the blaze, which started last Wednesday near a PG&E transmission tower in The Geysers geothermal area in northeastern Sonoma County, has burned 76,825 acres and is 30% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's round of power shutoffs began as PG&E continued the process of restoring power to more than 1 million customers who were blacked out preemptively during last weekend's siege of severe winds — or who lost power because of damage caused by gusts that topped 60 mph in many locations and hit 102 mph in The Geysers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Kate Wolffe contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28:\u003c/strong> PG&E says it has restored power to about 400,000 of the 970,000 customers who had their electricity shut off Saturday during the onset of dangerously windy, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Quinlan, the PG&E executive serving as incident commander for the public safety power shutoff, said during a media briefing Monday evening that crews were restoring power to the vast blacked-out area at a rate of 35,000 to 45,000 customers an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said that 100,000 customers who were not included in the preemptive shutdown also lost power during what amounted to a severe prolonged windstorm that began Saturday evening and continued through early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinlan said that as of 5 p.m. Monday, 630,000 account holders — including those who suffered unplanned outages — remained without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next for the utility and its customers is yet another round of shutoffs as high winds returns to Northern California early Tuesday. But it appears the coming blackout, the third in just a week, will be more limited in scope than the weekend shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinlan said that the shutoffs beginning Tuesday will affect somewhere between 240,000 and 600,000 customers in 29 counties: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Humboldt, Kern, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo and Yuba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said shutoffs could begin in the North Bay by 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and occur in East Bay and South Bay communities much later in the day or even early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinlan acknowledged the wide spread in the utility's projections and said that the lower estimate of customers affected, 240,000, represented the impact of the next blackout if only lower-voltage distribution lines are turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impact could be much wider, Quinlan said, if PG&E is unable to restore power to two sets of high-voltage transmission lines in the northern part of the state: a pair of \"very important, critical\" 230-kilovolt transmission lines serving areas from Marin to Humboldt County and high-voltage lines carrying power from The Geysers geothermal power generating stations to North Bay communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 230-kV lines were removed from service for the Saturday shutoff, Quinlan said, and were being inspected for storm damage Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are optimistic our patrols are going to come back with no trouble, and if they do, we can re-energize\" the lines, Quinlan said. \"The contingency is that if they do come back with trouble found and need to remain out of service, they will impact the scope\" of the coming shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinlan said that the status of the transmission lines in The Geysers was uncertain because of possible damage suffered during the Kincade Fire or because they remain inaccessible due to ongoing fire activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782609/map-pge-transmission-lines-near-kincade-fire-ignition-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last week\u003c/a> that one of its transmission lines suffered a problem at about the same time and place the Kincade blaze began last Wednesday night in The Geysers. The lines were still carrying power at the time, though a public safety power shutoff had been declared in the area and distribution lines had been shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11782609 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-24-at-5.18.58-PM-1038x576.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28:\u003c/strong> PG&E says that as of 3 p.m. Monday it had restored electricity to about 300,000 customers of the 940,000-plus who were left in the dark by a public safety power shutoff that began Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process of restoring power involves aerial inspections of the thousands of miles of distribution and transmission lines shut down just ahead of the onset of extreme winds across Northern California on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That inspection looks for damage to equipment, such as downed lines or poles, and instances where trees or tree limbs have been blown into power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said Monday that in the aftermath of a voluntary blackout conducted from Oct. 9 through Oct. 12, it found 120 locations its equipment had suffered damage that could have sparked fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PG&E blackouts — among the 10 conducted by the state's other major utilities this fire year — are designed to prevent power facilities from sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is planning to shut off power again in as many as 32 counties on Tuesday as another round of high winds sets in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783084/pge-confirms-historic-shutoffs-totaling-940000-customers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sweeping power outage\u003c/a> still in place across 38 California counties, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/27/pge-is-monitoring-a-third-consecutive-severe-wind-event-for-tuesday-and-wednesday-that-could-impact-nearly-32-counties-across-northern-and-central-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Sunday\u003c/a> that it's preparing for yet another preemptive blackout because of a forecast of extremely windy weather beginning Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said that some of those who are currently without power may not have it restored until after an outage anticipated for Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility shut down power to about 960,000 customers on Saturday evening as a dry cold front advanced south through the state and began a prolonged siege of extremely high winds. An additional 100,000 customers are in the dark due to wind-related outages, PG&E said at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pacificgasandelectric/videos/537684733444713/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a media briefing\u003c/a> Sunday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current outage — formally called a public safety power shutoff and designed to prevent fires sparked by live electrical lines — is the largest preemptive blackout declared so far, affecting roughly 2.5 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours after the shutoff, winds raged through the Sonoma County hills and mountains, with the highest recorded gusts topping 90 mph. The fierce winds pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire in Sonoma County\u003c/a> southward, prompting evacuation orders for 180,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although winds eased somewhat during the day Sunday, gusts exceeding 70 mph were common in the area and complicated Cal Fire's effort to stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783135/kincade-fire-evacuations-expand-to-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire\u003c/a> from spreading south from the outskirts of Healdsburg and Windsor into Santa Rosa or jumping U.S. 101 and beginning a run to the Sonoma County coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E started the restoration process earlier than anticipated in some areas, including the northern Sacramento Valley, northern Sierra and the North Coast, PG&E incident commander Mark Quinlan said during Sunday's briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews will begin the process of inspecting lines and turning power back on for the remaining affected areas between 6 and 8 a.m. Monday, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as that restoration effort proceeds, the company is preparing for the renewed onset of high winds Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential Tuesday-Wednesday shutoffs will have a geographical footprint in the North Bay nearly identical to the weekend blackouts but will cover a reduced area in the East and South Bay, Quinlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the company sent out a 48-hour notification to warn approximately 500,000 customers of potential shutoffs. However, this number is expected to change by Monday due to evolving weather conditions and transmission analysis, Quinlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're in the process of determining where and who, because we understand how important that is to customers. We understand that they need to make plans, and we want to be as transparent as we can,\" Quinlan said. The company expects to have these details by Monday morning, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesman Paul Doherty said some of the hundreds of thousands left in the dark by the blackout that began Saturday may not have power restored until after the Tuesday-Wednesday outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we will make every effort to restore power to as many customers as possible who are currently out, because this is such a dynamic situation with changing weather conditions, some customers who are currently without power ... may remain out through the next potential PSPS event,\" Doherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cautioned that customers who do have power restored after the weekend shutdown may have only a brief window before the lights go out again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those customers who are able to have their power restored between events, we urge them to use that opportunity to charge their devices, their phones, any medical equipment and that sort of thing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the next potential shutoff came amid renewed criticism of the utility's preemptive outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversy over the public safety shutoffs has been fanned by a PG&E report that one of its power lines in northeastern Sonoma County experienced a problem just minutes before the Kincade Fire was reported Wednesday night and in the same area the blaze is believed to have started. Cal Fire is continuing to investigate what sparked the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire, a Healdsburg Democrat who was among those forced to evacuate as the Kincade Fire spread Saturday, on Sunday called PG&E's power shutoffs \"a debacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They lack the basic fundamentals to successfully execute a large and complex outage,\" McGuire said during an appearance on KQED-FM on Sunday. \"I think we're in this situation now for three reasons: lack of investment and mismanagement by PG&E on their electrical system, the lack of supervision and enforcement by the (California) Public Utilities Commission, and because we're facing a new climate reality in this state that's caught up with Pacific Gas and Electric.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has been an increasingly vocal critic of how PG&E is conducting the outages, told KQED on Sunday that the company's \"decades ... of malfeasance and corporate greed, focused on shareholders and not on you and me and the taxpayers and their customers, cannot be solved overnight. I get people's frustration, I can assure you I am frustrated. ... But I also recognize my unique responsibility to fix this damn thing and do everything to hold PG&E and my own Public Utilities Commission to account to fix this in a way that this does not become the new normal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest round of deliberate outages began before dawn Tuesday in Trinity, Shasta, Butte, Tehama and Plumas counties in Northern California. Communities in three North Bay counties — Sonoma, Napa and Solano — were taken offline shortly afterward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Marin County was not so straightforward. PG&E initially said that it would cut power to virtually all customers in the county around 11 p.m. Tuesday. But by Tuesday morning, that estimate had changed — first to 7 a.m., then to 8 a.m. But the outage didn't occur as the company had described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11:30 a.m., Laine Hendricks, the county's public information officer, said the new round of blackouts appeared not to have begun and that PG&E was actually restoring power to customers who had been shut off during the weekend's vast outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That weekend outage covered about 120,000 Marin customers — nearly every home, business and public facility in the county. Hendricks said the utility had reconnected about 53,000 customers by midafternoon Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My latest communication from PG&E is that it (the shutoff time) still varies,\" Hendricks said. \"I guess there's a number of factors at play. And if they don't have to cut off the power, they're trying not to. They're dealing with obviously a potential weather event. And they're also there monitoring the situation just north of us in Sonoma,\" mostly relating to the Kincade Fire's impact on power facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, those various factors, which are still very fluid at this point, is why we don't have any certainty on a possible de-energization timeline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Tuesday, the Fairfax Police Department sent out a Nixle alert saying \"PG&E states that Marin is currently outside the scope of the next general PSPS that begins today.\" The alert also said PG&E was experiencing problems with a substation in the county and that power could be shut off if the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County threatened transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the Marin confusion, Quinlan, the PG&E's incident commander, said the uncertainty was due to \"some operational related constraints\" related to high-voltage transmission equipment in Sonoma County's Kincade Fire area and other parts of the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinlan added that an \"all clear\" had been declared for the five Northern California counties where blackouts began early Tuesday. An all clear was expected for most of the rest of the blackout zone by 8 a.m. Wednesday. The one exception: a small pocket of about 1,000 PG&E customers in Kern County's Tehachapi range, where Santa Ana conditions were expected to continue through Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather event prompting the preventive shutoffs is a resumption of high, extremely dry winds that has prompted the National Weather Service to post \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a red flag warning\u003c/a> for most of Northern California.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current outage — formally called a public safety power shutoff and designed to prevent fires sparked by live electrical lines — is the largest preemptive blackout declared so far, affecting roughly 2.5 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours after the shutoff, winds raged through the Sonoma County hills and mountains, with the highest recorded gusts topping 90 mph. The fierce winds pushed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire in Sonoma County\u003c/a> southward, prompting evacuation orders for 180,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although winds eased somewhat during the day Sunday, gusts exceeding 70 mph were common in the area and complicated Cal Fire's effort to stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783135/kincade-fire-evacuations-expand-to-santa-rosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire\u003c/a> from spreading south from the outskirts of Healdsburg and Windsor into Santa Rosa or jumping U.S. 101 and beginning a run to the Sonoma County coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E started the restoration process earlier than anticipated in some areas, including the northern Sacramento Valley, northern Sierra and the North Coast, PG&E incident commander Mark Quinlan said during Sunday's briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews will begin the process of inspecting lines and turning power back on for the remaining affected areas between 6 and 8 a.m. Monday, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as that restoration effort proceeds, the company is preparing for the renewed onset of high winds Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential Tuesday-Wednesday shutoffs will have a geographical footprint in the North Bay nearly identical to the weekend blackouts but will cover a reduced area in the East and South Bay, Quinlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the company sent out a 48-hour notification to warn approximately 500,000 customers of potential shutoffs. 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