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Including more than w40 helicopters and efforts to bring aerial fleet capabilities to bear. and additionally, we've already reached out to our peer companies across the nation to bring in additional qualified personnel to help us in regards to do the safety inspections and the restorations through the established mutual assistance. we've requested at least 1,000 additional qualified personnel through that effort. once we've completed all of our inspections safely, we will be doing the damage assessment, ensuring the repairs are completed and ensuring that we're completing the repairs for a saf...

Miles per hour with this event. again, these are dry, offshore winds, gusting to 45-60 miles per hour. so a dangerous situation. and we are, and national weather service is forecasting peak gusts of 85 miles per hour in some of the more exposed, elevated terrain throughout our territory. northern operations predictive services, the other federal forecast agency that we closely coordinate with on any high-risk wind event is also looking at a high risk event. they're forecasting this event to potentially exceed the 99th percentile, said another way, an extreme event. the meteorological and data ...

We have more than 600 weather stations owned and operated by pg and e and several hundred other weather stations we rely on from the national weather service and remote automated networks that we can see. again, i'll stress that this is a serious situation that is in front of us. fuels are very dry after the event that we just went through, and this will be a strong offshore and dry wind event. so we absolutely must be prepared for it. so, with that, i'll stop there and turn it back over to you. >> so, scott, what's a equivalency of the humidities? >> the relative humidities will be what we ca...

Climbs up the hillside and reaches the trees, spreading the blaze even further. and a rapid response to the muir fire in marin county, just north of san francisco. david, you can see what it's already done. this structure here still burning in the foothills. the wind in northern california is expected to die down tonight into tomorrow, giving firefighters a chance. but winds critically dangerous in southern california and here, they're gearing up for another major wind event this weekend into monday. david? >> some difficult days ahead for sure. will, thank you. and as we follow the fires, we ...

Overnight, growing to 10,000 acres in a matter of hours. it has destroyed three homes in the wine country town popular among tourists. extreme weather conditions have hampered the aerial firefight. they say that the winds really need to be less than 30 miles an hour for the water drops to make a difference. while we don't know what has caused a fire, this is exactly what pacific gas and electric was hoping to prevent by shutting off the power for the second time this month. pg&e says in dangerously warm weather, pulling the plug reduces wildfires by the company's equipment. force blackouts yes...