LATEST: Wind-whipped wildfire in the San Fernando Valley of California grew to nearly 5,000 acres overnight, damaging dozens of homes and prompting swift evacuations for more than 100,000 people.
PG&E has said it could be several days before all power is restored because all 24,700 miles of distribution lines and 2,443 miles of transmission line must be visually inspected before it can turn the power back on — a process that can't get widely underway until the threatening fire conditions have passed."They're in bankruptcy because of their terrible management going back decades," Newsom said Wednesday.
"If they had de-energized this time last year and a year ago, a lot of people would be alive," he said."A lot of people's lives were lost because they did not do the right thing." At PG&E's daily update on Thursday evening, Chief Executive William Johnson declined to comment on Newsom's remark, but he apologized for what he called the company's failure to keep its customers in the loop.
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