California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a statewide need to ensure the availability of vital resources to fight fires across the state, amplified by the effects of the historic West Coast heat wave and persistent high winds.
“We use every available resource to keep communities safe because California is burning across the state in these extreme conditions,” Governor Newsom said. “California and its federal and local partners are working in lockstep to meet the challenge and remain vigilant in the face of continuing dangerous weather conditions.”
The statement includes a mobilization by the California National Guard, to assist local agencies in the multiple ongoing emergency riots.
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Newsom’s statement states that “there are currently hundreds of fires actively burning under these extreme weather conditions throughout California.” And “the number of fires that are actively burning statewide, as in other Western states, has resulted in a strain on California’s most reciprocal aid system, making it increasingly difficult for jurisdictions to find the necessary resources for state and state fire. to respond to these fires. “
The state of emergency came not long after the nonprofit corporation, which controls much of California’s energy network, issued a Stage 2 Alert, saying “rotating power outages” were “immeasurable.”
In an interview with reporters, Steve Berberich, the CEO of the state Independent Service Providers, which runs the power grid, noted hard tensions on the electrical system and encouraged residents and businesses to retain power. Rolling blackouts will occur as the California Independent System Operator moves to a Stage 3 emergency, he said.
Berberich said the system was expected to fall by about 2,700 megawatts Tuesday night. That is the equivalent of almost three nuclear plants and enough electricity for the needs of about 2 million customers.
The ISO declared a Stage 2 emergency at 2 a.m. That is the final step before ordering blackouts. Berberich said power outages could begin at 4 p.m.
The state presented an even brighter outlook on Monday. It could prevent blackouts on Monday despite going to stage 3, because, according to Berberich, word came out and consumers were cutting back on energy consumption.
Just hours earlier, President Trump claimed that Democrats were guilty of the California blackouts on Friday and Saturday.
State officials blamed the weather, a power plant shutdown and a sudden, brief shortage of wind at energy-generating turbines this weekend.
“On Saturday night,” Berberich said, “we were within an hour of being able to serve the load without incident … We lost 400 MW [power station] unity and, the wind had all been well, but ran out. If the wind was not blowing on us, we would be ok. ‘
En young was it hot.
Also on Tuesday, Berberich confirmed that the 130 degrees seen in Death Valley on Saturday is the highest reliably recorded temperature, even measured on Earth: “We have confirmed that the Death Valley temperature was the highest ever on Earth.”
It was so hot, in fact, that because temperatures in nearby Lake Tahoe broke a record this weekend, the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada issued a warning for “tornado pyrocumulus” or “Fire Tornadoes.”
Tahoe also confirmed a plague case this week. Yes, the Bubonic Plague.
Below are images of a tornado of the fire seen near Redding, CA in July.
