With a critically elevated fire threat across Northern California, which is already dealing with ongoing wildfires, officials warn of planned outages.
The majority of affected residents are in Shasta and Tehama counties, but pockets of Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Napa and Yolo counties could also see planned outages,. Utility officials said the shutoffs are meant to “stop catastrophic wildfires by proactively turning off power when extreme weather threatens our electric grid.”
🔥 Fire Weather Watch has been issued for the northern, central, & western Sac Valley Tuesday night to Wednesday evening.This is NWS Sacramento's first Fire Weather Watch of the year.
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