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Israel has accused international aid agencies like the UN of not picking up aid waiting at Gaza's border, pointing to the hundreds of trucks sitting idle.

“At the right conditions, failing idle facilities can pose significant wildfire and safety risks,” PG&E wrote in its plan to remove the lines.

The cause is still under investigation, but Pizarro has said a leading theory is that an idle Edison transmission line, last used in 1971, somehow became reenergized and started the blaze.

It doesn't own any vehicles but manages them digitally, trying to ensure that trucks don't stand idle or return home empty.

Despite my “talk to no one” intention on this idle Wednesday, I found myself distracted by a man sitting at the edge of the bar across from me, writing feverishly on a napkin.