oops
reminds me of that scene on AIRPLANE with the little girl
Just incidental collateral damage in the Holy War on freedom and prosperity.
“PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith said it has not been able to confirm the accuracy of the report.”
I’ll the word of a fire chief as being very accurate and true.
I have said how PSE&G is in a lose-lose situation.
They will be sued for something that happens because they shut the power off, and if they hadn’t shut the power off and a wildfire started in their service area, they’d be sued due to damages incurred from that fire.
If they had not been required to spend the extra billions they had to spend meeting the state’s “green” mandates on the utility companies ($2.8 billion extra buying “renewable” power when less expensive power was available from the grid) - they would have been able to do more of the line maintenance and upgrades they needed to do before last years wild fires. Now they are in bankruptcy.
https://news.yahoo.com/california-winds-move-south-may-051313469.html
"Marie Aldea of Pollock Pines said her 67-year-old father Robert Mardis Sr. was asleep when the electricity went out around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday and likely couldn't wake up in time to get his back up machine, which ran on battery.
"We were all asleep, we heard my mom scream. She was crying," she told KTXL-TV in Sacramento . "My dad went down in her arms, he was going for this oxygen machine."
There were enough warnings, it’s a shame someone didn’t think about this man and get him to safety.
As big as the black outs were, were there no shelters for people dependent on medical devices.
aren’t people normally given an oxygen tank as a backup to the concentrator?
Wife has IPF and is on permanent oxygen. We also keep quite a few bottles of oxygen handy and a generator ready, just in case.
It seems like he should have been prepared, at least somewhat, for a power outage since they occur all the time and without warning usually.
Keep voting for Democrats.
sad...but this was predictable.
This makes for a heart rendering story, but the fact is that there are about 40,000,000 people in California. That means that about one person dies every minute.
Sounds like a coincidence to me. The fact that he could not breathe without oxygen tanks and he suddenly suffocated to death for no reason a few minutes after they cut off power to his oxygen equipment are totally unrelated.
I bet it's Trump's fault.
California’s governor says..... nothing.
Gov. newsome will take over and everything will be run on unicorn farts.
“...after Pacific Gas and Electric shut down power to the area as part of a massive effort to prevent fire...”
More like trying to avoid being sued again by the government criminals.
At least he didn’t suffer as long as Terry Lee did in Fla.
This is very strange to me. When people are on oxygen here, in addition the regular machine, they are issued tanks that do not require electricity that will last at least 24 hrs. in case of emergency.
If he was on oxygen why didn’t he have a backup generator?
Hmmmm. Yeah, that's a tuffy alright.