"Our most urgent priority is to force the utilities to do everything possible to end these outages," Glazer said in a statement.

Tri-Valley State Sen. Steve Glazer said Wednesday he plans to introduce legislation in January designed to help medical equipment and cellphone towers stay in operation longer in emergencies such as fires and earthquakes.

"Until we have that assurance, we must also do all we can to help our residents deal with any power outages that do occur," Glazer said.

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