Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, January 23, 2021

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, January 23, 2021 

LA COUNTY COVID-19

COMMUNITY CASES/DEATHS

JANUARY 22, 2021 vs January 15, 2021 

LOS ANGELE COUNTY* 01/15/2021 

Total Cases 989,928

Deaths 13,489

 

STATS BY CITY Population CasesDeaths 

 (01/22/2021 stats in parenthesis)

 

Pasadena 14,1371 9559 (8941) 203 (189)

Uninc- East Pasadena 6,403173 .... (169) 6 (5)



City of Arcadia 57,754 2211 (2066) 78 (64)

Uninc. - Arcadia7.981506 (451) 10 (9)

City of Bradbury 1,06932 (32)0 (0)

City of Duarte 22,016 1954 (1799) 57 (50)

City of Monrovia 38,800 2675 (2474) 76 (76)

Uninc - Monrovia 3,881 309 (288) 1 1)



City of Sierra Madre 10,989 386 (362)8 (7)

City of So.Pasadena 26,053 1104 (614)35 (28)

Uninc.- Altadena 43,260 2733 (1459) 45 (23)

La County Testing as of 01/22/2021: 5,301316 (5,117,473) 

Positivity Rate (No. of persons positive out of total persons tested)

as 01/22/2021: 18.6% (18.0) Nationally recommended Positivity Level: 5%

SUPERVISOR BARGER JOINS IN EFFORTS TO CURB THE 
USE OF PUBLIC SAFETY POWER SHUTOFFS

REPEATED SHUTOFFS LEAVE THOUSANDS STRANDED 
WITHOUT POWER – DEBILITATING

WORK AND SCHOOL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC



LOS ANGELES COUNTY —Supervisor Kathryn Barger is supporting the effort by the California Public 
Utilities Commission (CPUC) to address concerns of communities throughout Los Angeles County, 
which continue to experience ongoing Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) initiated by Southern California 
Edison (Edison). The CPUC will hold a public hearing with Edison to ensure transparency regarding 
their compliance with CPUC rules and requirements and to receive comments from stakeholders.

“This hearing is an important first step to hold Edison accountable to its customers and communities 
and to fix what is clearly a broken system tied to Public Safety Power Shutoffs,” said Supervisor Barger. 
“Although we understand that Southern California Edison must balance very real concerns about public 
safety and impending fire danger when they decide to implement a PSPS event, we believe there is a better 
way to communicate and mitigate these outages. We look forward to working with the CPUC, Edison, 
and all of the stakeholders involved, including our impacted community members, to make sure any 
future PSPS events are as painless as possible.”

During dangerous weather conditions, such as high winds, extreme heat, and low humidity, utility companies 
such as Edison proactively turn off power in high fire risk areas to reduce the threat of wildfires. 
These Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) can impact nearly 50,000 households in the San Gabriel, Santa 
Clarita and Antelope Valleys. With the various health officer orders that have closed schools and forced 
more individuals to work from home, the devastating impacts of power loss are significant to these community 
members. 

Earlier this month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion by 
Supervisor Barger that asked County Counsel to investigate all available legal options for the County to 
mitigate the impacts of future PSPS events. The motion also sought assistance from the CPUC, the Office 
of the Governor, and the Los Angeles legislative delegation to address proper notification and communication 
to impacted communities and to mandate substantial additional mitigation measures as a requirement 
for the continuation of the PSPS program. A copy of that motion can be found here.

The public hearing will be on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. Community members may tune in here and can 
call in for public comment at 800-857-1917, passcode: 5180519#.


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