With 90 days to go before the beginning of fire season, a San Francisco federal judge told PG&E and its regulators Tuesday that there is no longer the “luxury of time” to resolve the ground rules for power shutoffs in fire season. In the eyes of the judge, it has become a “matter of life and death.”

U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup’s comments came during a continued hearing on a proposal to amend the conditions of probation that were imposed on PG&E following its criminal conviction in 2016.

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.