Millions of Californians Face Third Round of Blackouts as PG&E Might Cut Power

Millions of Californians prepared to live in the dark again as the state’s largest utility warned it might cut power for the third time.

Salvador Espinosa sweeps in the kitchen of a Mary’s Pizza Shack restaurant during a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power shutdown in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Oct. 10, 2019. Christopher Chung/The Press Democrat via AP

Millions of Californians prepared to live in the dark again as the state’s largest utility warned it might cut power for the third time in as many weeks because of looming strong winds and high fire danger.

Pacific Gas & Electric will decide Saturday whether to blackout 850,000 homes and businesses in 36 counties for 48 hours or longer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, wine country and Sierra foothills.