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Jurupa Valley residents, council press for action after prolonged SoCal Edison power outages
Summary
Public commenters described multi-day outages during a recent SoCal Edison safety shutdown; council members promised a special meeting with Edison, discussed emergency shelters and possible state-level remedies.
Hundreds of Jurupa Valley residents described weeks of hardship after a recent round of public-safety power shutoffs and related outages during the week of Jan. 6–13, 2025, and asked the City Council on Jan. 16 to press Southern California Edison for better notice, compensation and preparedness.
The city heard repeated accounts of medical equipment going without power, spoiled medications and food, and seniors trapped without elevator access in senior housing. The most frequent requests from public commenters were for a town-hall-style meeting with Edison, a city-led program to provide or loan emergency generators for medically vulnerable residents, and formal coordination with school districts to open shelter space during long outages.
Why it matters: Residents said outages were not just an inconvenience but created public-health and economic harms — the council promised…
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