Range Hoods and Exhaust Ducts

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The local utility now cuts power, during high heat and wind events.
It will take a few decades and billions of dollars to underground the lines.

In the meantime, look for your next megafire to be started by a Tesla Powerwall, installed because of the public safety power shutoffs.

My only point here is no other utility in the USA faces such an easily combustible terrain. The current Western megadrought, and the ongoing year-by-year climate change trends will make this worse. Expect more megafires. A few decades ago, 10,000 acres was huge. Now that size fire would not even make the news unless a celebrity home was torched.

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Don’t go easy on the utility company or forest management. Cutting people’s power is failure to serve.

They need an interim solution during the underground project.

Don’t count on any measurable change.
This is a shocking article.
PG&E Will Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines So They Don't Spark Wildfires : NPR.

Look into this article and how the money is divided.

I think range hoods should be installed to manufacturers specifications.

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And all this has to what about exhausting range hoods?

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Sorry Tom, I fixed my post. See edit.

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It’s a good article. I sit on a local board charged with planning undergrounding projects. It’s wicked expensive, and frankly beyond the private utility’s capacity. No other utility faces such a difficult environment. Insulated wires may be needed in the interim.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled range hood death by toxic gasses discussion.

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