Thousands of residents across San Luis Obispo County and California were left without power for two and a half days last week thanks to dangerous fire conditions.
The outage was part of PG&E’s planned Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) that spanned Oct. 15–18, aimed at preventing wildfires during the dry and windy weather.
Without electricity, households from San Simeon to Nipomo and inland lost air conditioning, power for electric medical devices and refrigeration for food and medication…