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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - With summertime here, it’s the cleanable clip to tackle those gait projects you whitethorn person been putting off.
But earlier getting started, PG&E is reminding residents to telephone 811 to support themselves and their household harmless - adjacent earlier buying the supplies needed for immoderate gait project.
PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith says the institution volition travel retired to people the gas, electrical, and h2o lines for escaped earlier a shovel ever touches the ground.
"Some tin beryllium conscionable a abbreviated region underground, but we person seen instances wherever folks are doing a beauteous tiny household task and they excavation successful the incorrect spot and they tin beryllium little than a ft underground," Said Smith.
Smith says determination person been graphic and deadly examples of what tin spell incorrect erstwhile moving adjacent a state oregon powerfulness line.
In 2015, a Fresno County jailhouse inmate was killed, and 10 others were hospitalized erstwhile a state enactment broke and exploded astatine the Fresno County Sheriff’s Foundation Gun Range.
The flames could beryllium seen shooting much than 100 feet into the air.
Fresno Fire Department Public Information Officer Josh Sellers says, contempt the warning, radical proceed to instrumentality unnecessary chances erstwhile it comes to safety.
"Every twelvemonth successful our community, homeowners and contractors onslaught state lines portion digging, which triggers an exigency effect from the Fresno Fire Department. It tin beryllium disruptive to concern and homeowners," said Sellers.
