LATEST: Sonoma Co. Sheriff's Office: 'Approx. 180,000 people under evacuation order due to KincadeFire. This is the largest evacuation that any of us at the Sheriff’s Office can remember. Take care of each other.'
Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian said that although the utility doesn't track average customers per account, using common metrics, the phased outages, could affect well over 2 million people.
Southern California's largest blaze, the 4,600-acre Tick fire in northern Los Angeles County, was 55 percent contained Saturday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Fire weather could return to Southern California late Sunday and then again Wednesday through Friday, the National Weather Service said.
Newsom said the utility has shown"a lack of intentionality and focus on hardening their grid, undergrounding their transmission lines. They simply did not do their job."
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