Thousands of Northern Californians lost power Wednesday morning, as the embattled giant utility PG&E began pulling the plug as a preventative measure against potential wildfires.
around Northern California so customers could charge up devices, use a bathroom or grab a bottle of water.to be restored as inspectors make sure lines are safe to be reactivated.
"It’s hard to overstate the impact of this massive rolling blackout, affecting 2.5 million people," Wiener said in a statement."People rely on electricity for their medicine, their food and their livelihoods. This is a completely unacceptable state of affairs. We can’t let PG&E normalize these mass blackouts.", the state's flagship university with more than 42,000 undergraduate and graduate students, also called off classes.
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