California: Fires threaten power lines around Oregon ( Feeding power to California )

Statesman Journal ^ | July 19, 2002 | Statesman Journal staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

PORTLAND

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

oregon has many fires burning and there have been outages on some power lines supplying power from BPA.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some Links:

Officials say large fires may merge (Oregon Fires)

Add some links if you would!

[rellimpank]

--then if anyone had any brains whatsoever the "brush" anywhere near the powerlines would be removed as rapidly as possible--in fact already should have been--

[Brad’s Gramma]

!

[2sheep]

Dense smoke is a conductor of electricity, so areas very close to the lines could be very dangerous.

[tubebender]

I had a email from my niece yesterday and she had visited Ctater Lake. She had to drive with her headlights on during the day because the smoke was so thick.

[Grampa Dave]

This is the link to the thread that I posted yesterday: Link to Oregon fires)

If I have time, I start a new thread. We are heading out to be Grampa and Gramma for the day.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the latest Oregon News links re the fires: (latest Oregon Live update on wildfires)