The state of California has extended a Flex Alert to Saturday evening including in Santa Clarita, due to threatened transmission lines from a growing wildfire in southern Oregon.
Transmission lines used to import energy to California are being threatened by the wildfire in Oregon, as well as the extreme heat putting stress on electrical grids throughout the state.
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) is encouraging residents to conserve energy by adhering to the Flex Alert guidelines.
These include setting the thermostat at 78 degrees or higher, avoiding using major appliances, turning off unnecessary lights, using fans for cooling and unplugging unused items.
Death Valley hits 130 degrees as heat wave sweeps the west
“People aren’t able to cool off; it’s a lot harder to get relief.” Ashley Dehetre and Katelyn Price, walk on the salt flats of Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California. Roger Kisby/The New York Times By Matt Craig and Sophie Kasakove, New York Times Service July 10, 2021 | 5:22 PM
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FURNACE CREEK, Calif. For Gary Bryant, the tenth-of-a-mile walk from his modular home to the air-conditioned restaurant where he was working Saturday was “quite enough” time outside.
Bryant, 64, knows the risks of summer temperatures in California’s Death Valley. He once collapsed under a palm tree from heat exhaustion and had to crawl toward a hose spigot to douse himself with water.
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Firefighters struggled to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the U.S. West this weekend, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas. On Friday, Death Valley National Park in California recorded a staggering high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) and could reach the same high on Saturday. If verified, the 130-degree reading would be the hottest high recorded there since July 1913, when the same Furnace Creek desert area hit 134 F (57 C), considered the highest reliably measured temperature on Earth. The Beckwourth Complex two lightning-caused fires burning 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Lake Tahoe showed no sign of slowing its rush northeast from the Sierra Nevada forest region after doubling in size between Friday and Saturday.