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| California fire season: 100,000 evacuated in the south as power returns to north – live | |
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| A few videos of the fire devastation in southern California from people on the ground: | |
| #SylmarFire has jumped the 5... racing toward Granada hills @NBCLA https://t.co/4fAs6Rd8rr | |
| Video: Strong winds are fanning the #SaddleridgeFire in Porter Ranch, Sylmar and Granada Hills. Via @gadiNBC https://t.co/98J1DqcBS4 pic.twitter.com/zkYKLESNAJ | |
| #SaddleridgeFire: Two homes on fire along Celtic and Laughton — a few of us are knocking on doors because some people came running up the street asking what was happening. It’s 1am and people are sleeping. No fire department crews in this area @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/JLYVkuifxA | |
| Scary as fast moving flames driven by strong #winds sweep through communities overnight. This is driving down Sesnon after fire jumped the road. #GranadaHills #PorterRanch @abc7 #abc7eyewitness pic.twitter.com/o9loblhxse | |
| This is one of the homes destroyed on Jollett Ave. in Granada Hills during the #SaddleRanchFireThe homeowner is an elderly woman who was evacuated overnight. @FOXLA @GDLA @LACoFDPIO pic.twitter.com/XBsar3XHto | |
| WOW flames over 50 feet high approaching homes on Calle Vista in Granada Hills. #SaddleridgeFire @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/ovo4cmIM7i | |
| PG&E executives were wining and dining on the company’s dime in Sonoma county as the utility was planning to shut down power for millions of people across California, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting: | |
| EXCLUSIVE: PG&E gas officials wined and dined with top customers in Sonoma County just before their colleagues cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers and on the 2-year anniversary of the 2017 North Bay wildfires. https://t.co/DG1Ivwg1j7 | |
| Roughly a dozen employees from PG&E’s gas side of the business mingled with 50 to 60 top customers at a winery on Monday and Tuesday, according to thew newspaper. The trip to the winery also came two years after PG&E poles ignited deadly and devastating wildfires in that exact region of wine country. | |
| Here’s what Bill Johnson, CEO of the utility’s parent company, told the Chronicle: | |
| I want to apologize to every one of our customers. Insensitive, inappropriate, tone deaf are the terms I would use to describe this. | |
| Johnson also told the reporter he was not aware the event was happening and would have stopped it if he had known. | |
| I just reached out to PG&E to see if they have any additional comment and will update if I hear back. | |
| For those displaced by the Saddleridge fire in northern LA, a fifth evacuation center has opened: | For those displaced by the Saddleridge fire in northern LA, a fifth evacuation center has opened: |
| #SaddleridgeFire A new evacuation center is open at Lanark Recreation Center (21816 Lanark St) The other four evacuation centers are now FULL and unable to accept new arrivals. Please check https://t.co/0kdujOUhIz for the latest updates #LAFD | #SaddleridgeFire A new evacuation center is open at Lanark Recreation Center (21816 Lanark St) The other four evacuation centers are now FULL and unable to accept new arrivals. Please check https://t.co/0kdujOUhIz for the latest updates #LAFD |
| Info on the centers, from the fire department: | Info on the centers, from the fire department: |
| NEW and OPEN for arrivals: Lanark Recreation Center (21816 Lanark St) | NEW and OPEN for arrivals: Lanark Recreation Center (21816 Lanark St) |
| FULL: Sylmar Recreation Center (13109 Borden Ave) | FULL: Sylmar Recreation Center (13109 Borden Ave) |
| FULL: Northridge Recreation Center (18300 Lemarsh St) | FULL: Northridge Recreation Center (18300 Lemarsh St) |
| FULL: Granada Hills Recreation Center is now full and not able to accept any more residents. | FULL: Granada Hills Recreation Center is now full and not able to accept any more residents. |
| FULL: Mason Park (10,500 Mason Ave) | FULL: Mason Park (10,500 Mason Ave) |
| For large animals: | For large animals: |
| Hansen Dam (11770 Foothill Blvd) | Hansen Dam (11770 Foothill Blvd) |
| NEW: Pierce College (6201 Winnetka Ave) | NEW: Pierce College (6201 Winnetka Ave) |
| If you need help with the evacuation of large animals, contact East Valley Animal Shelter 818-756-9323 | If you need help with the evacuation of large animals, contact East Valley Animal Shelter 818-756-9323 |
| Officials in southern California have reported a second death linked to the wildfires. | Officials in southern California have reported a second death linked to the wildfires. |
| A person was killed when a fire swept through a mobile home park in Riverside county east of Los Angeles, Cal Fire spokeswoman Cathey Mattingly told the AP. Mattingly said there were also some injuries, but details of the severity were unclear. There were also few details about the individual who died. | A person was killed when a fire swept through a mobile home park in Riverside county east of Los Angeles, Cal Fire spokeswoman Cathey Mattingly told the AP. Mattingly said there were also some injuries, but details of the severity were unclear. There were also few details about the individual who died. |
| SECOND DEATH: Another death has been confirmed at the scene of wildfires in Southern California. Read more: https://t.co/9bIfqBSNY0 pic.twitter.com/apFDBaNCyC | SECOND DEATH: Another death has been confirmed at the scene of wildfires in Southern California. Read more: https://t.co/9bIfqBSNY0 pic.twitter.com/apFDBaNCyC |
| The Riverside county fire was estimated to be about 823 acres (333 hectares) and 10% contained this morning. | The Riverside county fire was estimated to be about 823 acres (333 hectares) and 10% contained this morning. |
| In LA at a separate fire, a man went into cardiac arrest and died. | In LA at a separate fire, a man went into cardiac arrest and died. |
| In northern California, the impacts of the controversial Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) power cuts are being disproportionately borne by those who are physically vulnerable, my colleague Vivian Ho reports: | In northern California, the impacts of the controversial Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) power cuts are being disproportionately borne by those who are physically vulnerable, my colleague Vivian Ho reports: |
| California power shutoff: how PG&E's actions hit the medically vulnerable the hardest https://t.co/apAqSHou5p | California power shutoff: how PG&E's actions hit the medically vulnerable the hardest https://t.co/apAqSHou5p |
| Deanne Mediati learned of northern California’s massive power shutoff when her husband shook her awake at 3:30 in the morning on Wednesday. “Honey, the power is out,” he told her. “You’re not breathing.” | Deanne Mediati learned of northern California’s massive power shutoff when her husband shook her awake at 3:30 in the morning on Wednesday. “Honey, the power is out,” he told her. “You’re not breathing.” |
| Mediati, 59, has hypoxia and requires an oxygen concentrator to breathe when she sleeps. Like everything else running on electricity in 600,000 Californian homes and businesses this week, her oxygen concentrator stopped working when the country’s largest utility company cut power to an unprecedented swath of the state as a preventive measure against wildfires. | Mediati, 59, has hypoxia and requires an oxygen concentrator to breathe when she sleeps. Like everything else running on electricity in 600,000 Californian homes and businesses this week, her oxygen concentrator stopped working when the country’s largest utility company cut power to an unprecedented swath of the state as a preventive measure against wildfires. |
| For Californians like Mediati who rely on electronic medical devices, access to electricity is a matter of life or death. | For Californians like Mediati who rely on electronic medical devices, access to electricity is a matter of life or death. |
| “I had to be woken up because I stopped breathing,” Mediati said. “I could have died.” | “I had to be woken up because I stopped breathing,” Mediati said. “I could have died.” |
| In the latest shutoff in northern California, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) cut the power to portions of 34 of the state’s 58 counties on Wednesday, a move that affects more than 1.5 million people. Of those affected, more than 30,000 are part of a medical baseline program, meaning they have special energy needs due to qualifying medical conditions. | In the latest shutoff in northern California, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) cut the power to portions of 34 of the state’s 58 counties on Wednesday, a move that affects more than 1.5 million people. Of those affected, more than 30,000 are part of a medical baseline program, meaning they have special energy needs due to qualifying medical conditions. |
| These energy needs range from motorized wheelchairs, ventilators, dialysis machines, apnea monitors, electrostatic nebulizers to respirators – all of which require power to operate. In the aftermath of the shutdown, people dependent on these devices were scrambling to find alternative power sources, places to charge them or other ways to get through what was originally slated to be up to five to seven days of no electricity. | These energy needs range from motorized wheelchairs, ventilators, dialysis machines, apnea monitors, electrostatic nebulizers to respirators – all of which require power to operate. In the aftermath of the shutdown, people dependent on these devices were scrambling to find alternative power sources, places to charge them or other ways to get through what was originally slated to be up to five to seven days of no electricity. |
| Read her full story here: | Read her full story here: |
| California power shutoff: how PG&E's actions hit the medically vulnerable the hardest | California power shutoff: how PG&E's actions hit the medically vulnerable the hardest |
| Welcome to our live coverage of the wildfires and power shutoffs plaguing the state of California today. We’ll be keeping you updated on the latest developments. I’m writing from Los Angeles, where the Saddleridge fire is continuing to spread and spark widespread evacuations. | Welcome to our live coverage of the wildfires and power shutoffs plaguing the state of California today. We’ll be keeping you updated on the latest developments. I’m writing from Los Angeles, where the Saddleridge fire is continuing to spread and spark widespread evacuations. |
| To start, a quick summary of the status of these emergencies: | To start, a quick summary of the status of these emergencies: |
| In northern Los Angeles, a rapidly spreading wildfire has led to evacuation orders for roughly 100,000 people across more than 20,000 homes. | In northern Los Angeles, a rapidly spreading wildfire has led to evacuation orders for roughly 100,000 people across more than 20,000 homes. |
| The Saddleridge fire erupted Thursday night in Sylmar, the northernmost portion of the San Fernando valley, and it has spread at a rate of roughly 800 acres an hour into Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. | The Saddleridge fire erupted Thursday night in Sylmar, the northernmost portion of the San Fernando valley, and it has spread at a rate of roughly 800 acres an hour into Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. |
| Fire officials said Friday morning the fire had grown to more than seven square miles and estimated that there was damage to at least 25 homes. | Fire officials said Friday morning the fire had grown to more than seven square miles and estimated that there was damage to at least 25 homes. |
| One middle-aged man died of a cardiac arrest near the fire, though specific details of the death were unclear. | One middle-aged man died of a cardiac arrest near the fire, though specific details of the death were unclear. |
| A separate blaze also ripped through a mobile home park in Calimesa, a city roughly 65 miles (104km) east of LA, destroying dozens of residences. | A separate blaze also ripped through a mobile home park in Calimesa, a city roughly 65 miles (104km) east of LA, destroying dozens of residences. |
| Southern California Edison turned off electricity to about 20,000 people in Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino and Kern counties but warned that thousands more could lose service as Santa Ana winds gained strength. | Southern California Edison turned off electricity to about 20,000 people in Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino and Kern counties but warned that thousands more could lose service as Santa Ana winds gained strength. |
| In northern California, PG&E had shut off power to an estimated 2 million people over fears its equipment could spark wildfires amid high winds. | In northern California, PG&E had shut off power to an estimated 2 million people over fears its equipment could spark wildfires amid high winds. |
| PG&E has started the process of restoring power to some of the communities that were cut off on Wednesday and Thursday. | PG&E has started the process of restoring power to some of the communities that were cut off on Wednesday and Thursday. |
| Our latest story here: | Our latest story here: |
| California wildfire spreads as fears mount over further power shutoffs | California wildfire spreads as fears mount over further power shutoffs |