(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – PG&E will be conducting low-flying helicopter practice flights over the Yuba County foothills communities of Dobbins & Oregon House today, as well as along Marysville Road at Bullards Bar reservoir. They will be flying at “roughly 250 feet” according to a press release, in preparation for possible PSPS events and to “reduce their impact.”

There will be no actual power interruptions during the drills, that are designed to “provide key information to determine service restoration timing during an actual PSPS.”