PG&E Customer With Stage 4 Cancer Gets Power Back In Foothills After 10 Days

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GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — More than 21,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers successful the Sierra Foothills are inactive without powerfulness aft past Sunday’s record-setting snowstorm. One Grass Valley lawsuit successful crisis, though, yet got his powerfulness backmost Tuesday aft CBS13 made a sojourn to perceive his story.

Patrick Franks’ sister Sheryl emailed CBS13, writing, “I don’t privation him to dice similar this.”

Patrick has Stage 4 melanoma.

“I person it successful my brain,” helium says, “I person it successful my lungs, and I person it successful my spleen.”

His roommate, Michele, has COPD, a chronic lung illness that makes it hard to breathe.

“Michele is connected 24-hours oxygen,” Patrick tells CBS13, “The crab attraction that they’ve got maine on, 1 of them has to beryllium refrigerated.”

Patrick says PG&E was connected his spot connected Friday, but told him that due to the fact that the elevation wherever his powerfulness rod is located is excessively steep and soggy for regular equipment.

“I cognize what they’re up against,” Patrick said, acknowledging the magnitude of enactment PG&E was facing, but, helium said, “I thought radical who were astatine risk, I thought they were a priority.”

PG&E returned to Patrick’s spot Tuesday and had his powerfulness backmost connected earlier 2 p.m.

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In a statement, PG&E said, “For situations similar this, we are utilizing the FREED Center for Independent Living to supply assistance to aesculapian baseline customers successful need. For customers that beryllium connected energy for aesculapian devices, and are successful request of assistance, they should telephone PG&E astatine 1-800-743-5000 and inquire to beryllium transferred to an Independent Living Center.”