SAN FRANCISCO: To help meet the climate-driven challenge of increasing wildfires and extreme weather events, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has announced a comprehensive Community Wildfire Safety Program.
PG&E is working in close coordination with first responders, civic and community leaders and customers on this program. These efforts will have an immediate impact on reducing wildfire threats and improving safety, in advance of the start of wildfire season in Northern and Central California.
Years of drought, extreme heat and 129 million dead trees have created a “new normal” for California. In the interest of public safety, and following the wildfires in 2017, PG&E is implementing additional precautionary measures intended to reduce the risk of wildfires. PG&E is continuously evolving its operating practices in response to new standards and regulations, but this new normal means even more must be done in partnership to strengthen the safety and resilience of the state’s energy infrastructure.
The multi-faceted program focuses on three key areas:
• bolstering wildfire prevention and emergency response efforts;
• working with customers and first responders to put in place new and enhanced safety measures; and
• doing more over the long term to harden the electric system to help reduce wildfire threats and to keep customers
safe.
“Our system and our mindset need to be laser-focused on working together to help prevent devastating wildfires like the ones in the North Bay in October and in Southern California in December from happening again, and in responding quickly and effectively if they do,” said Pat Hogan, PG&E’s senior vice president of Electric Operations. “Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, which is what the Community Wildfire Safety Program is all about.”
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