""You should be ready for the power to cut off at any moment," Ian Anderson, a government relations manager for Edison, told the Moorpark City Council at an October meeting. He urged residents to buy generators and said the utility doesn't reimburse customers for spoiled food and other losses if it believes the blackouts were required by "an act of God.""
"Yet in recent months, the utility has heard a chorus of complaints from communities including Moorpark and Malibu that it is blacking out customers even when the winds are calm. And the utility often has failed to warn people of the coming outages, making it impossible for them to prepare, according to filings at the state Public Utilities Commission."
Southern California Edison cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers this year, more than ever before, to prevent electric lines from sparking wildfires. The utility lowered the wind speed that triggers public safety power shutoffs and added tens of thousands of customers to affected areas after the Jan. 7 Eaton fire that killed 19 people in Altadena when an Edison transmission line ignited. Edison warned communities in fire-prone areas to expect more frequent and longer outages and urged residents to buy generators. Complaints have arisen about outages during calm winds, missed warnings, and lawsuits alleging failures to shut lines before the Eaton fire.
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