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Pacific Gas & Electric says it's restored power to 97% of the customers it deliberately blacked out because of weather-related fire concerns.

Pacific Gas & Electric says it’s restored power to 97% of the customers it deliberately blacked out because of weather-related fire concerns.

The El Dorado Count Sheriff’s office said Friday that 67-year-old Robert Mardis died from severe coronary disease.Pacific Gas & Electric had shut off power to roughly 2 million people due to wildfire risk. It says electricity will be restored to 98% by Saturday.Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it expects to restore power to 98% of some 2 million people affected by the utility’s deliberate blackout by the end of the day.

PG&E began the sweeping blackouts Wednesday to prevent its power lines from being hit with tree branches or other debris and sparking deadly fires during dry, windy weather.Pacific Gas & Electric Co., says crews discovered four sections of wind-related damage after the company cut power twice during windy weather weeks before Wednesday’s massive cuts.

The utility cut power to nearly 2 million people earlier this week to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires during dry, windy weather.The daughter of a Northern California man who died when his oxygen equipment failed during a planned power shutdown says she doesn’t understand why Pacific Gas & Electric Co. turned off the electricity.

Areas without power includes Plumas, Yuba and Butte counties, where people are on their third day without electricity. Butte County is where a fire started by PG&E equipment last year decimated the town of Paradise and killed 85 people.

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