California Utility Unveils New Wildfire Safety Operations Center

New hub will coordinate responses to wildfires

 

(Vic Lee, ABC7/Twitter)

 

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – PG&E unveiled its state-of-the-art Wildfire Safety Operations Center on Tuesday, a hub where they’ll coordinate responses to fast-moving fires like the North Bay fires.

The utility says those destructive fires had nothing specifically to do with the creation of the new op center.

The new Wildfire Safety Operations Center is housed at the utility’s headquarters on Beale St. in San Francisco.

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New hub will coordinate responses to wildfires     SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – PG&E unveiled its state-of-the-art Wildfire Safety Operations Center on Tuesday, a hub where they’ll coordinate responses to fast-moving fires like the North Bay fires. The utility says those destructive fires had nothing specifically to do with the creation of the new op […]

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