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#pge-safety

The fire, which burned at least 60 acres, was reported shortly after 3 p.m. along Carbon Canyon Road, just east of Valencia Avenue.

A chemical gas reaction occurred at the plant involving nitric acid and another substance, resulting in a violent reaction that instantaneously overreacted, according to Emergency Management Director C.W. Sigman.

PG&E confirmed that a gas leak had occurred near that location. A spokesperson, Tamar Sarkissian, told us that a PG&E crew was on-site by 11:15 p.m. the night of April 9 and after working for about two hours, stopped the flow of gas as 'safely and as quickly as possible' - by 1:32 a.m. Friday morning.

Research from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety consistently identifies wind-borne embers, firebrands carried well ahead of the fire front, as a dominant cause of residential structure loss in wildfires.

The March 19 fire was a wake-up call for the community, highlighting the importance of egress planning and emergency access during such incidents.

Researchers have known since at least 2008 that wildfires can create chromium-6, but a new study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology in November, is the first to report details such as how long it might persist in groundwater.

With San Jose pushing to attract manufacturing, research labs and data centers, city officials say PG&E is on track to provide power to a dozen major projects by 2030, as highlighted in a deal inked with the utility giant last year. The commitments come as San Jose will have an abundance of power by 2028, when LS Power finishes construction of two new transmission lines that are expected to add 2,000 MW to the area.

UBS expects the stock's 43% price-to-earnings discount to narrow "meaningfully" with continued risk reduction. PG&E's data center pipeline stands at 3.6 GW in final engineering, up from 1.6 GW in Q3 2025, representing a significant load growth catalyst. Management guided for 2026 non-GAAP core EPS of $1.64 to $1.66, with a $73 billion five-year capital plan requiring no new common equity.