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California’s best weekend escape town has serious turkey problem

Nypost · · 691 words · By Zain Khan
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California’s best weekend escape town has serious turkey problem See more of our coverage in your search results.

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California’s best weekend escape town has serious turkey problem See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The California Post on Google Residents of a picturesque California coastal town have been dealing with a bizarre string of power outages this summer — and the culprit has feathers.

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Wild turkeys are being blamed for repeatedly knocking out electricity in Cambria, where residents and businesses have endured a series of short-lived outages since mid-July.

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/19/us-news/wild-turkeys-blamed-for-multiple-power-out…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Wild turkeys are being blamed for repeatedly knocking out electricity in Cambria, where residents and businesses have endured a series of short-lived outages since mid-July.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that wild turkeys caused multiple short-term power outages in Cambria, California, starting in mid-July.
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web search NEUTRAL — Wild turkeys blamed for multiple power outages in California coastal town.Wild turkeys have ruffled feathers in Cambria, causing havoc by repeatedly cutting off electricity. Since mid-July, both local…
https://newsfinale.com/us/wild-turkeys-cause-chaos-and-power…
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web search NEUTRAL — Wild turkeys are a common sight around Cambria. California ground squirrels are a common sight near Cambria's beaches. Cambria offers a variety of recreational activities such as bicycling and hiking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria,_California
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web search NEUTRAL — Utility says wild turkeys caused at least six recent, short, early-morning outages.PGE said birds' weight causes lines to swing and trigger safety shutdowns.PGE crews increased line spacing to prevent…
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article316911285.html
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Claim 2: “The utility said crews recently worked to modify the lines by creating more space between them”
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The PG&E evidence explicitly states that crews increased line spacing to prevent bird-caused outages following their investigation.
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web search NEUTRAL — (this is a reupload because youtube deleted the og video for no proper reason lol) After the success of my last liminal space video..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMLBK16UXU4
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web search NEUTRAL — Linear created the issue via Slack on behalf of Karri·2min ago. Triage Intelligence added the labels Performance and iOS·2min ago.A new species of product tool. Purpose-built for modern teams with AI …
https://linear.app/
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web search NEUTRAL — PG&E is burying power lines along Eureka Way in Redding to reduce wildfire risks and improve power reliability.
https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2026/09/12/pge-begi…
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Claim 3: “When they take off, the push from their weight causes the lines to swing and come into contact with one another. When that occurs, our enhanced powerline safety settings (EPSS) detect the hazard and automatically shut off power to prevent an ignition.”
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Multiple sources confirm that PG&E uses Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) to detect hazards and shut off power to prevent ignition, and specifically link this to the turkey incidents in Cambria.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The blaze began on the morning of November 8, 2018 when hardware on a po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at Kaiser Center, in Oakland, California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Compa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A smart meter is an electronic device that records information—such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor—and communicates the information to the consumer and el…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter
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Claim 4: “In 2021, a flying turkey was reportedly seen striking a power line during an outage that affected much of the community, according to reporting cited by the Tribune.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results about car insurance and general Wikipedia entries for 'Cambria' (Wales/Band), with no mention of a 2021 turkey power outage.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York, formed in 1995. It consists of Claudio Sanchez (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Travis Stever (guitars, vocals), Josh Eppard …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coheed_and_Cambria
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, Cymru. The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct en…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cambria is a Latin name for Wales. Cambria may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_(disambiguation)
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Claim 5: “These settings shut off power within one tenth of a second after detecting hazards on the power line”
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A direct quote from PG&E in the web search results explicitly states that these settings shut off power within one tenth of a second after detecting hazards.
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web search NEUTRAL — “These settings shut off power within one tenth of a second after detecting hazards on the power line, such as contact from an animal or tree branch, to prevent an ignition.”
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article316911285.html
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web search NEUTRAL — PG&E said this round of shutoffs could impact about 14,000 customers across 12 counties and four tribal areas in the Northern Sierra and Sacramento Valley through Monday, based on how the weather patt…
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/power-shutoffs-publi…
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web search NEUTRAL — This video also shows how to upgrade server racks and power transformers, since the new 0.9.0 upgrade system is split between physical upgrades you install by hand and normal upgrades you buy through …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcXmYTtcdE
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Claim 6: “The utility later confirmed to the Tribune that six outages in the area since July were caused by wild turkeys.”
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The utility (PG&E) specifically confirmed that at least six recent outages were caused by turkeys, as noted in the web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Colombo crime family (; Italian: [koˈlombo]) is an Italian American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime in New York City within the criminal organizatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo_crime_family
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fisting (also known as fist fucking (FF) and handballing) is a sexual activity that involves inserting one or more hands into the rectum (anal fisting) or the vagina (vaginal fisting). Fisting may be …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts (Chinese: 香格里拉酒店) is a multinational hospitality company, founded in 1971 by tycoon Robert Kuok and bearing the name of Shangri-La, a Far Eastern mythical land of content…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_Hotels_and_Resorts
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Claim 7: “The quiet village, tucked into a pocket of Monterey pines on the Central Coast was recently named one of the top weekend escapes on the West Coast by WorldAtlas.”
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While one source confirms Cambria is a romantic small town on the Pacific Coast, none of the provided evidence confirms that WorldAtlas specifically named it one of the top weekend escapes on the West Coast.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cambria sits on California's Central Coast with about 6,000 residents and two walkable village centers, the East Village and the West Village, spaced a short distance apart along Main Street.
https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/11-romantic-small-towns-on…
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web search NEUTRAL — Bill Martin West Coast Weather Channel.California is cooling down, but the wind is becoming the big weather story. Red Flag Warnings are in effect across parts of Northern California, with additional …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwW5lqforA
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web search NEUTRAL — United States. California. Florida.Travel website WorldAtlas named the best small town to visit in each of America's 50 states, and for their Massachusetts pick they looked inland.
https://travel.yahoo.com/guides/united-states/articles/not-c…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.