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Power cut to thousands as California braces for fire risk

by Amy TaxinOlga R. Rodriguez
| October 25, 2020 4:09 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric started cutting power Sunday to tens of thousands of California residents and planned outages for many more to prevent the chance of sparking wildfires because of extreme fire weather.

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