Electra Fire, outage

By Bart Magoffin; posted September 18, 2015

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Here is the powerhouse and transmission lines yesterday. The plant was shutdown as 60KV poles fell and fire engulfed the tower lines shown. We were without power for a week, the PG&E lineman I talked to that restored our power said they set 17 new 60KV poles in 2 days, mostly with helicopter on the canyon walls. He also said they washed all tower suspension insulators before turning on the power Tuesday this week.

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