PG&E Failure Sparks Fire Fears in North Bay

6/15/2018
Updated:
6/15/2018

A PG&E voltage regulator malfunctioned Thursday night causing a fire in a Santa Rosa residential area, according to Fox KTVU. Fortunately, no one was injured as the winds were light and the slope was weed-whacked the week before making the grass low.

Fire officials received 30 calls to 911 from residents as a power outage lasted an hour for about 4,000 households. The news comes only a week after CalFire declared that PG&E falling lines and equipment failures accounted for more than a dozen of October’s fires. PG&E says that its overhead lines are inspected every five years.

Sonoma country has about 90,000 wooden power poles.