Bootleg Fire Advances Toward Summer Lake; Disrupts Power Transmissions To California

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

CHILOQUIN, Ore. (CBS SF/AP) — The wall of flames from the Bootleg Fire advanced toward the popular Summer Lake recreation area early Monday, growing to more than 153,500 acres and disrupting transmission on Path 66 — an electrical line corridor linking the California grid with power generators in the Northwest.

The threat to the power corridor forced California power grid officials to issue a flex alert for possible outages on Monday.

“The fast-moving Bootleg Fire tripped off transmission lines on Friday and again Saturday, limiting electricity flow from the Pacific Northwest to California,” the agency said in a news release. “Power supplies to the California ISO service territory, which covers about 80 percent of the state, have been reduced by as much as 3,500 megawatts because of the fire.”

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