Nearly half a million PG&E customers to lose power amid planned fire-safety shut-offs Sunday (10-25)

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PG&E revealed Fridays that planned power shut-offs to take place Sunday would place nearly half a million homes and businesses or roughly 1.5 million people in the dark in 38 counties across Northern and Central California.

Nearly a third of those potentially affected, or 143,726 customers, are in the Bay Area, where every county except San Francisco would see some outages under the utility’s plan.

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Some communities, including Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda, received early indications from the utility that power will be shut off locally and are informing residents.

(probable paywall): https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Lafayette-Orinda-Moraga-brace-for-PG-E-outages-15670411.php

Berkeley officials say hills residents should consider leaving before Sunday’s high fire danger

Berkeley officials said residents living in the hills should consider leaving their homes before Sunday afternoon, when dry, windy conditions are expected to bring high fire danger to the Bay Area.

Residents living in the Berkeley hills “should stay on heightened alert, keep phones charged and nearby, and consider leaving the hills before Sunday afternoon — especially if they would have trouble getting out quickly in a fire,” city officials said Friday.

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City officials also said residents who live east of Claremont and residents of Panoramic Hill should also prepare for potential power shut-offs.

(probable paywall): https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-officials-say-hills-residents-should-15671677.php

Get your stuff together folks.