text:  One paycheck away from being homeless out here. We got lots of people on the beach already. And so that's a big concern. Public safety power shutoff programs have been a wildfire prevention practice in California for about a decade. Patrick Murphy lives with his family in Marin County, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. We went through many of the PSPS outages in our neighborhood, and we ended up throwing away a refrigerator of food and a freezer full of food a couple of times a year because of public safety power shutoffs and decided we didn't want to do that.