Native residence improvement center in northern California. The city of San Francisco isn’t coated by PG&E’s shutoffs. However a lot of the encircling Bay Space and beyond is anticipated to go darkish, together with large swaths of Silicon Valley, the cities of Oakland and Berkeley and far of the Northern California wine country hit by wildfires that killed forty four two years ago. The outage additionally impacts elements of the agricultural Central Valley, the state’s northern and central coasts and the Sierra Nevada foothills the place a November wildfire blamed on PG&E transmission strains killed 85 individuals and devastated the town of Paradise.
The California Freeway Patrol says a PG&E truck had a window shattered by a bullet Tuesday night on Colusa County. The motive force wasn’t hurt. Contractor Rick Lachmiller came to Friedman’s early Wednesday to buy extension cords for his generator after his dwelling misplaced power around 1 …