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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Central Valley is expecting record-high temperatures this week -and immoderate areas person already received excessive vigor warnings.
PG&E has been tracking the vigor question for a fewer days. PG&E Central Valley Region Vice President Josh Simes says their crews are moving passim the vale and are prepared to react.
“We've taken our crews strategically, placed them passim the cardinal valley, having them acceptable to react."
Simes says his squad is moving astir the timepiece to hole for the vigor wave.
“We conscionable each nighttime and each greeting to guarantee that we're staffed appropriately,” helium said.
The exigency operating centers are open, and crews volition beryllium connected standby, acceptable to reconstruct power, successful lawsuit an outage occurs.
“We instrumentality our materials, our supplies, transformers. we enactment them retired person to wherever the enactment is being done truthful the crews tin activate and beryllium determination quickly,” Simes said.
Simes urges customers to marque an relationship online truthful they tin amended way outage locations and the estimated clip of restoration if the powerfulness goes out.
“If you're signed up connected your account, you volition person an alert connected the outage,” helium said.
Teams are besides moving each time to marque the strategy much reliable.
“Whether that's moving successful underground vaults, whether that's making our inferior poles stronger, much reliable, we are determination ready,” said Simes.
PG&E besides asks customers to conserve vigor during the highest hours of 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
