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37,000 PG&E customers to lose power as dry, windy conditions move into Northern California

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) says that it will cut electricity to about 37,000 customers in parts of 15 counties Wednesday evening through Friday.
Credit: AP/(Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP, File
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, Elijah Carter 11, left, and Robert Haralson, 12, help shop for their parents in a darkened Olivers Supermarket during a blackout in the Rincon Valley community in Santa Rosa, Calif. When Pacific Gas & Electric set up emergency operations centers to coordinate intentional blackouts intended to prevent wildfires in Northern California, the nation's largest utility forgot one thing, emergency managers who knew the fundamentals of emergency management in California. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP, File)

SAN FRANCISCO — Northern California has entered a new round of fire danger. Forecasters predict ongoing dry conditions will be punctuated by bursts of offshore winds through the rest of the week. 

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) says that it will cut electricity to about 37,000 customers in parts of 15 counties Wednesday evening through Friday to prevent sparks from wind-blown wires from igniting fires.

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Southern California is continuing a cooling trend with low clouds and fog pressing in from the coast and may even see light rain or drizzle from Friday into the weekend. 

Most of the huge fires that scorched California since mid-August are fully or significantly contained.

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