卡拉巴萨斯与马里布居民称防火断电三天无法打911
美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县卡拉巴萨斯市、马里布市——据哥伦比亚广播公司洛杉矶分台报道，卡拉巴萨斯与马里布的居民表示，10月为防范野火而实施的断电让他们无法拨打911，也收不到紧急通知，居民已在卡拉巴萨斯市议会会议上表达不满。
两地用户在10月经历了三天的断电。当时强劲的圣安娜风助长了马里布的 Bryson 大火，电力公司以公共安全断电（PSPS）方式切断电源，以防设备在强风中引发火灾。
居民 Jamie Camp 在市议会上说：「完全没有服务，手机、电话、网络，什么都没有。」居民们还表示，这类断电在一年中反复出现，令人难以忍受；有人说，断电的风速门槛多年来不断降低——「曾经是阵风40英里／小时，后来变成30，再变成20」。
卡拉巴萨斯市议员 Alicia Weintraub 一直在动员社区就断电问题发声，她说，频繁断电是不可持续的。南加州爱迪生公司则表示，有意的断电是为了降低火灾高发区的风险，该公司正在当地推进导线覆层与线路入地等工程。
来源：哥伦比亚广播公司洛杉矶分台报道；南加州爱迪生公司回应（同上）。
Calabasas and Malibu Residents Say Three Days of Fire-Safety Shutoffs Left Them Unable to Call 911
CALABASAS and MALIBU, California — Residents of Calabasas and Malibu in Los Angeles County, California, say power shutoffs intended to prevent wildfires left them without the ability to call 911 or receive emergency notifications, CBS Los Angeles reported. Residents voiced their frustrations at a Calabasas City Council meeting.
Customers of the electric utility in both communities experienced three days of shutoffs in October as strong Santa Ana winds drove Malibu's Bryson Fire. The utility cut electricity under a public safety power shutoff, or PSPS, to keep its equipment from starting a fire in the high winds.
"No service whatsoever," Jamie Camp said at the council meeting, according to CBS Los Angeles. "Cellphone, phone, internet. Everything." Residents said the recurring nature of the outages was a key source of frustration, with shutoffs throughout the year. One person said the threshold for a PSPS had been lowered over time: "Once upon a time, the threshold was 40 mph gusts … then it became 30, then it became 20," according to CBS Los Angeles.
Alicia Weintraub, a Calabasas city council member who has been mobilising the community to speak out against the outages, said frequent power shutoffs are unsustainable. Southern California Edison said the intentional outages minimise risk in the fire-prone area, and pointed to work in Calabasas to install covered conductors and place power lines underground.
Sources: CBS Los Angeles reporting; Southern California Edison response, as reported in the same account.
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：南加州爱迪生公司输电设施（资料图）。来源：Wikimedia Commons（Southern California Edison，公共领域）
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