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Big power shutoffs in California as winds boost fire danger

by Amy TaxinOlga R. Rodriguez
| October 26, 2020 8:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Large swaths of California had no electricity Monday as utilities tried to prevent the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires while the fire-weary state was buffeted by powerful winds and dangerously dry weather conditions.

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