Editorial: Millions of Californians are facing blackouts. But are we any safer from wildfires?
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Oct 30, 2019
3 minutes
The intentional blackouts that have left millions of Californians without electricity this week have been branded "public safety power shut-offs" because they were intended to stop downed utility lines from sparking the kind of devastating wildfires that level communities and kill people. On the face of it, that sounds reasonable: After all, more than 2,000 fires - including the state's deadliest and most destructive - have been sparked by electrical lines
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