Colfax Mayor Says City Is in ‘Dire’ Situation Due to Power Outage

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COLFAX (CBS13) — Colfax Mayor Trinity Burruss wants her metropolis to cognize she’s present to help.

The recent, record-breaking snowfall tempest successful the Sierra has near tens of thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers without power. For Colfax residents, that’s lone fractional the problem.

“We person a operation of radical trapped successful their homes and not having power,” Mayor Burruss tells CBS13. “And for many, that means nary vigor root and nary quality to cook.”

Mayor Burruss says PG&E’s champion estimation for getting powerfulness restored is January 2. The inferior company’s biggest situation is getting entree to roads crowded with dense snow, fallen trees and downed powerfulness lines.

“It’s similar a chickenhearted and ovum situation,” says Placer County Road Division Manager Matt Randall. “There’s the histrion crossed the road, but past there’s snow, and you person to get the roadworthy each plowed.”

Mayor Burruss is going to large lengths to get entree to the roads arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, adjacent deputizing household members to tally snowfall plows.

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Her connection to her city: “If you person the quality to get retired safely, if you don’t person vigor and you person determination to go, I would perfectly urge it. If you person the quality to assistance your neighbors, delight assistance your neighbors.”