At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires.
"We were surprised by how dark it was," said Pamela Zuzak, 70, who uses a walker to get around.
By PG&E's estimate, more than 900,000 people were without power Wednesday, some of them since Saturday, while crews battled fires in Northern and Southern California.
She visited the three buildings that make up the complex and found apartments without heat and electric stoves that did not work.
"I thought it was particularly upsetting that they knew the power outage was coming," she said of management.