PG&E crews perform spectacular aerial repairs to pole and transformer across from Cal Fire in Fort Bragg

Power is out at the south end of Franklin Street and the east side of Main Street. I discovered this driving home after work about midnight, one of the more dramatic scenes to come upon in a little town like ours. There were three workers high in the air on buckets and several blocks were closed to pedestrians. I drove around and found a few blocks out, including the Food Bank and my old warehouse at 900 N. Franklin. Very dark down there in Fort Bragg’s industrial row. But not much else was out.

I went home and looked up the outage and PG&E’s website says its a planned outage involving a major fix that they did overnight. PG&E’s map of the outage was useless, showing almost the entire city, but only less than 50 people impacted. I drove through the city on my way home from the hospital and saw no outages, other than in the blocks south of the awesome display of flying workmanship. So its not really a big story but nice to know this was well planned on a Sunday night and these guys and possibly gals got up and did this needed work. Good job Ya’ll. I have a big story coming out tomorrow morning in mendocinocoast.news.

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