The Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services has issued a countywide alert warning that all PG&E customers in the county will lose power early tomorrow afternoon due to the Public Safety Power Shutoff being enacted in the face of severe fire conditions in portions of Humboldt County and surrounding areas. The office is urging residents […]
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UPDATE: OES Warns Entirety of Humboldt May Go Dark Saturday
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services is now advising that the entirety of Humboldt County is considered “in scope” for the PG&E blackout slated to begin Saturday night and all residents should be prepared to be without electricity for days. According to OES, PG&E’s prior advisories that only 2,188 customers would be affected […]
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UPDATE: Humboldt Expected to be Impacted by PG&E Blackout Saturday
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services is warning that PG&E currently expects 2,188 Humboldt County customers to lose power Saturday night as a result of local fire conditions. The office says it does not yet have more information about where the outages will be, when the power will be cut or how long […]
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BLACKOUT
It was 5:22 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, when Dorie Lanni’s cell phone rang. It had already been a hectic 36 hours for Lanni, the county’s emergency services manager tasked with running the three-person office that coordinates major emergency responses in Humboldt County. The prior Sunday, she’d joined a 6 p.m. conference call hastily assembled […]
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UPDATE: Officials: The ‘Outage’ Letter Circulating on Social Media is Fake
UPDATE: It’s official. The Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services says the letter is a fake. There is a fraudulent letter being received by some Humboldt residents about a scheduled power outage this week. The letter is NOT from PG&E and no outage is scheduled. — Humboldt Co OES (@HumCoOES) October 14, 2019 PREVIOUS: The […]
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3rd UPDATE: PG&E to Open ONE Local Resource Center with Water, Bathrooms During Blackout
3rd UPDATE: According to Pacific Gas and Electric spokesperson Deanna Contreras, the company will only be opening one community resource center in Humboldt County — not the two previously indicated — and it won’t be up and running until 8 a.m. tomorrow. The center will be located at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds and will offer bottled […]
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County Officials: Prepare for Days Without Power
Following up on an emergency alert sent out earlier this evening, the county of Humboldt has issued a press release warning that most, if not all, Pacific Gas and Electric customers will lose power beginning at midnight tonight and should be prepared to be without power for at least a few days. The outage is […]