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California Power Crisis Set to Worsen as PG&E Warns of Outages

  • State’s biggest utility warns of outages as high winds near
  • State enters peak fire season with triple-digit heat
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California’s electricity crisis is threatening to deepen as a heat wave gives way to wind storms, prompting the state’s largest utility to warn it may cut power to more than 450,000 people to prevent live wires from sparking wildfires.