With wildfire worries on their minds, residents in the Montclair neighborhood are 'struggling to understand PG&E's logic' behind leaving them off of a 10,000-mile underground powerlines program.
"This is a fire trap," said Harrison Barbera.&E's risk model does not factor in egress, but in its statement to ABC7 News PG
&E said it uses a team of local fire safety specialists with knowledge of local conditions including ingress and egress considerations to validate its risk model outputs.Oakland Deputy City Administrator Joe DeVries coordinates the wildfire prevention working group for Oakland. "Undergrounding is a big, long expensive process. We were told that this area wasn't a high priority area and we take exception to that," said DeVries.
"I mean honestly if none of those wires were above ground, none of them would release a spark that would cause a wildfire," he continued.Its 2023 wildfire mitigation plan doesn't sit right with Montclair residents who have seen what could happen. "I do not want to have to tell the story to my kids or grandkids again that we knew what had happened, had a perfect example, and not done anything about it," said Harmon.
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