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California heat wave prompts power shutdowns, fire danger

by Olga R. Rodriguez
| October 15, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 50,000 California utility customers were without power and others around the state were urged to conserve electricity Thursday amid a fall heat wave that brought another round of extreme wildfire danger.

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