“People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!' The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore.'
“People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!' The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore."PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and hot conditions.
Schools in the areas with planned power outages canceled classes and authorities urged residents to charge cellphones and be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice. “I don’t know whether this is the solution, but it’s an interim effort to manage wildfire risk,” Fleishman said. “People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!’ The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore. The fire likelihood is changing.”
Pacific Power has since hired a team of meteorologists to make fire weather forecasts and is spending more than $500 million to “harden” its electric grid in high-risk areas by replacing wooden poles with carbonized ones and encasing power lines and conductor boxes to reduce the chances of a spark, said Drew Hanson, a Pacific Power spokesman.
The largest in Oregon is the Double Creek Fire burning in northeastern Oregon near the Idaho border. The fire grew by nearly 47 square miles Wednesday because of wind gusts up to 50 mph and as of Friday had burned a total of nearly 214 square miles . It’s threatening about 100 homes near the community of Imnaha.
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