Update: Evacuation Underway For Dozens Sheltering From Electra Fire Inside PG&E Powerhouse

CBS Sacramento, CBS San Francisco

July 5, 2022

The Amador County Sheriff's Office on Monday night said deputies were evacuating roughly 100 people who were sheltered inside a PG&E powerhouse due to the Electra Fire.

Sacramento affiliate CBS 13 reported the last group is expected to be out of the powerhouse soon. The evacuees were stuck for hours in a PG&E powerhouse Monday as a fast-moving wildfire burns in the Sierra foothills along the Amador and Calaveras county line southeast of Jackson.

The Amador County Sheriff's Office says the Electra Fire started near Vox Beach. A deputy evacuated about 100 people at the beach into a nearby powerhouse along the North Fork Mokelumne River, according to authorities.

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