21,000 PG&E Customers Remain Without Power in Northern California

21,000 PG&E Customers Remain Without Power in Northern California
A Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) truck sits parked on a street on June 18, 2018 in San Francisco, California. California lawmakers are saying that PG&E is considering bankruptcy after a report released by Cal Fire investigators earlier this month showed that PG&E was tied to 12 California wildfires in 2017 that destroyed thousands of homes and killed dozens of people. The fires could cost PG&E over $15 billion in fines and related liabilities. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Around 21,000 PG&E customers remain without power as of midnight on Oct. 16 after it was turned off on Oct. 14 night due to high wind and fire risks in Northern California, according to PG&E officials.

PG&E spokesman Jason King said power has been restored to 38,000 of 59,000 customers who were affected and the remaining customers who are still without power should have it restored sometime today. He couldn’t confirm an official time of when all the outages would be resolved. A few thousand customers in Sonoma, Napa and Lake counties remained powerless as of midnight, according to PG&E’s website.