Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers were without power Wednesday morning following a new round of public safety outages because of high winds and low humidity.
PG&E said it began de-energizing customers at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening as part of its planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs in areas prone to wildfires. The outages began with 1,339 customers in Lake and Sonoma counties and continued at 7 p.m. with 1,019 customers losing power in Napa and Solano counties.
PG&E said there were no impacts to polling locations or tabulation centers except for one temporary outage at a Santa Rosa polling site. The utility said it dispatched a generator to the site in response.The Bay Area was under a Red Flag Warning because of the critical fire danger the winds and low humidity presented. The warning was in effect until 7 a.m. Thursday for most of the Bay Area, a large swath of the Northern California Central Valley, and the higher terrains of the Central Coast.
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