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BREAKING: PG&E says some of its equipment may have contributed to the start of the #DixieFire - which has burned thousands of acres and prompted evacuations near the site of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest in California history. @KQEDnews

In a preliminary report filed with state utility regulators - PGE says early on the morning the fire started, a dam it operates on the Feather River lost power. PG&E says a worker saw - from a distance - what he thought was a blown fuse on a nearby power line.

PG&E says the worker wasn't able to get to the scene until nearly 10 hours later because a bridge on the road to the line was out of service. When he got there he saw that two fuses had been blown, that a tree was leaning on the line and that a fire was burning near the tree.

PG&E says its workers alerted Cal Fire, which by that time had already gotten a report from one of its own crews and had already assigned air tankers and helicopters to respond.

Here's the company's report filed with the CPUC:
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This morning Cal Fire announced that the fire has burned more than 30- thousand acres

PGE: "Yesterday, PG&E filed an Electric Incident Report with the California Public Utilities Commission regarding the Dixie Fire in Butte and Plumas counties. "

More from PGE: "The information PG&E submitted is preliminary, and the company submitted this report in an abundance of caution given CAL FIRE’s collection of PG&E facilities in connection with its investigation. PG&E is cooperating with CAL FIRE’s investigation."

From Cal Fire's Nick Schuler: "The Dixie fire remains under investigation and we cannot provide any addition(al) comments at this time."