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REDDING, Calif. — With fire season now beginning to ramp up, PG&E has a new plan to help prepare its customers and local communities for the growing threat.

The company is now providing online tools with detailed, localized weather forecasts along with a Fire Watch map, allowing customers access to several HD cameras monitoring weather conditions.

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PG&E's weather map allows people to monitor the humidity, precipitation, temperatures, wind speeds and wind gusts across 70,000 square miles of the company's Northern and Central California service area.

Angie Gibson, PG&E's vice president of emergency preparedness and response, has stated that the company is sharing this information with its customers in order to "enable them to get a better sense of weather and other hazards."