Utility: All power has been restored to Northern California

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Utility: All power has been restored to Northern California

Associated Press | Sunday, October 13, 2019 12:32 a.m.

Smoke from the Saddleridge Fire hangs above power lines as the sun rises in Newhall, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. An aggressive wildfire in Southern California seared its way through dry vegetation Friday and spread quickly, destroying more than a dozen homes as tens of thousands of residents were ordered to get out of its way, authorities said.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says all power has been restored to the nearly 2 million Northern California residents who lost electricity when the state’s largest utility switched it off this week in an effort to prevent wildfires.

The company announced on Twitter on Saturday night all of the estimated 738,000 customers have their power back.

PG&E says about 6,300 personnel and 44 helicopters were used to inspect power lines and restore service.

PG&E cast the blackouts as a matter of public safety to prevent the kind of blazes that have killed scores of people over the past couple of years, destroyed thousands of homes and run up tens of billions of dollars in claims that drove the company into bankruptcy.

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