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Bay Area residents brace themselves for potential PG&E power outages in wildfire risk areas
Thousands of PG&E customers could be without power starting Monday in an effort to mitigate the risk of wildfire.Bay Area residents in the potentially affected counties are bracing themselves."I'm concerned," said John Pereira, referring to the power at his ranch potentially being cut off."PG&E coworkers and PGE meteorologists have been watching weather systems, and we're seeing in the next few days breezy offshore winds, low humidity and all these conditions for wildfire," said Megan McFarland, PG&E spokesperson. "If we go forward with this PSPS, it could potentially impact 13,500 customers spread across a targeted portion of 13 counties."RELATED: Power outages...
Major Heat Wave to Impact San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California Starting Monday
San Francisco, CA — The National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting a significant heat wave to impact the San Francisco Bay Area beginning Monday and continuing through Wednesday. After a relatively pleasant weekend, temperatures are expected to soar to 10-20 degrees above normal, bringing widespread moderate to major heat risk throughout the region.
Feds order Cruise to pay $1.5M penalty for infamous SF crash
Federal regulators on Monday announced they had Cruise pay a $1.5 million penalty for withholding details in reports following an accident nearly a year ago in which one of the company’s self-driving cars pinned and dragged a woman nearly 20 feet at a San Francisco intersection. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration consent order dated to Sept. 26 requires the General Motors subsidiary to submit a corrective action plan, which must include summaries on any software update made to the company’s automatic driving system, as...
Here's how the Bay Area is coping with day 1 of fall heat wave
The San Francisco Bay Area is under an excessive heat warning through Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. It was upgraded from a heat advisory early Monday."We're going to see temperatures that are similar to much, much hotter summer temperatures here," Michael Stanton, a CSU East Bay Professor of Public Health said. "As much as it feels, you look at the calendar and you see October, we're going to have to take precautions like it's the middle of the summer in the Bay Area."VIDEO: Bay Area bracing for 1st day of fall heat wave with public safety power...
San Leandro home catches fire Monday night
(KRON) — Crews responded to a fire at a San Leandro home on Monday night, the Alameda County Fire Department said. The fire happened on the 900 block of Williams Street. A single-story home is “well-involved,” ACFD said. Other buildings are exposed to the flames. Nobody was injured, but two families were displaced. The cause […]
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