Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is hosting open houses in Oakland and Walnut Creek for customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to share information about its Community Wildfire Safety Program.
Topics will include expansion of the Public Safety Power Shutoff program, accelerated safety inspections of electric infrastructure, enhanced vegetation management around power lines, and hardening the electric system for the future by replacing equipment and installing stronger and more resilient poles and covered power lines.
PG&E is inviting customers to participate by dropping in any time between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Webinars will also be available for those who are unable to attend an event in person. More information, as well as the schedule for upcoming open houses and webinars can be found at pge.com/wildfiresafety.
Oakland
Monday, July 8 – Oakland Marriott City Center, Junior Ballroom
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Walnut Creek
Thursday, July 11 – Gardens at Heather Farms, Camellia Room
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Given the continued and growing threat of extreme weather and wildfires, and as an additional precautionary measure following the 2017 and 2018 wildfires, PG&E is enhancing and expanding its Community Wildfire Safety Program to further reduce wildfire risks and help keep customers and communities safe.
PG&E is also expanding its Public Safety Power Shutoff program to include all electric lines – both distribution and transmission – that pass through high fire-threat areas. Because the energy system relies on power lines working together to provide electricity across cities, counties and regions, power may be shut off even for those who do not live or work in a high fire-threat area or an area experiencing extreme fire danger conditions.
This is PG&E’s attempt to blackmail customers into raising rates so they can spend money on upgrading their equipment, which they should have been doing for decades.
What do you expect from a company whose negligence has killed dozens of people and caused billions of dollars in damages?
In a wildfire emergency, I’m prepared to die because I won’t be able to get my car out of the garage to go to McDonald’s and I will starve to death. Additionally, from what I understand, the fire department won’t even bother trying to save my house in such an event because I don’t have the recommended defenseable space. It’s a little hard cutting stuff back as they recommend in 80+ degree weather and I just found out what it was a few days ago. So I’m just going to skip the intermediary steps and start planning my funeral now, instead.