Pacific Gas & Electric says it will go forward with another round of power shut-offs in 29 Northern California counties to prevent powerful winds from damaging equipment and sparking fires.
PG&E says the latest planned blackout will affect 605,000 customers — about 1.5 million people — starting early Tuesday.
It’s unclear how many of the more than 2 million still without power amid the current shut-off will have it restored before the next round of outages.
The announcement comes as crews battle a huge wildfire in Sonoma County wine country that has destroyed 96 buildings.
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