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PG&E failed to act on substation damage before crippling December blackout

An independent probe found that high humidity levels inside the Mission substation sparked an outage that left 120,000 customers without power.

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An independent probe found that high humidity levels inside the Mission substation sparked an outage that left 120,000 customers without power.

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