HAPPENING NOW: PG&E officials hold news conference on preemptive power outages in California.
As California faces a critical fire danger, utility companies are preemptively shutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Golden State -- and it could take up to five days to restore.
Public Safety Power Shutoff in Marin is underway. Currently no traffic lights at the intersection of N. Bridge and Bridgway Blvd in Sausalito/Marin City. Please use caution and treat outages at traffic lights as 4-way stops. #MarinPSPS #pgeshutoff pic.twitter.com/ZVxJfyXOnj #PSPS: Additional proactive shutoffs for safety will begin later this afternoon and into early evening in portions of these counties . This phase of the safety shutoff also includes some parts of Mendocino and Calaveras not turned off this morning. pic.twitter.com/DMFltsMoEZ
In Sausalito, just outside San Francisco, Laura Stiles arrived to her office Wednesday to find"complete and utter darkness." Her colleague found it difficult to access the latest PG&E status online as the overwhelmed website went down for hours. Long lines @ the gas pumps in #Napa. Power outages pushing people to prepare pic.twitter.com/FjnrEVEWaz
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