In a call with investors on Thursday, PG&E announced that they have set aside $2.5 Billion due to their expected liability in the North Bay Fires of October 2017.
Watch Nor Cal Fire Lawyers’ Amanda Riddle on KTVU discussing what this means for the PG&E lawsuits.
Does the Cal Fire report mean PG&E will increase its rates? Why should PG&E be blamed for the fires, when they were caused by exceedingly high winds?
Get the facts here.
“After extensive and thorough investigations, CAL FIRE investigators have determined that 12 Northern California wildfires in the October 2017 Fire Siege were caused by electric power and distribution lines, conductors and the failure of power poles.”
Read the full text of the CAL FIRE NEWS RELEASE below.
“After extensive and thorough investigations, CAL FIRE investigators have determined that four Northern California wildfires in last year’s October Fire Siege were caused by trees coming into contact with power lines.”
Read the full text of the CAL FIRE NEWS RELEASE below.
According to Sonoma County’s lawsuit,
“the Wine Country Fires started when electrical infrastructure owned, operated and maintained by PG&E . . . came into contact with vegetation that PG&E was obligated to have inspected and maintained but failed to do so in a manner that would have prevented or mitigated the effects of such contact.”
