The unprecedented effort found about 1,200 unsafe conditions involving its power equipment in areas at risk for wildfires across Northern California.
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The company says it made visual inspections of approximately 99 percent of its distribution infrastructure and visual or aerial inspections of approximately 98 percent of its transmission infrastructure in high-fire threat areas. Crews inspected 700,000 power distribution poles, more than 5,000 miles of transmission line and 25,000 miles of distribution line.
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In all, PG&E says more than 2,000 people-- PG&E employees and contractors-- performed the inspection.
In Marin County, PG&E is making plans to replace part of a transmission line and several towers.
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Crews found several issues on a line that runs through parts of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Sausalito.
PG&E also announced they will permanently shut down the transmission line that started the deadly Camp Fire in Paradise.