‘Prolonged response’ was ‘a direct and negligent factor in the ignition of the fire.’
PG&E wants Californians to believe that it was a “prudent operator” in the events leading up to the 2021 Dixie Fire, the second-largest wildfire in state history.No surprise there. Since 2017, PG&E, a two-time felon, has been ducking responsibility for a staggering 31 wildfires, burning nearly 25,000 structures and killing more than 100 Californians.
“The prolonged response to the initial outage and fault that occurred at 6:48 a.m. was a direct and negligent factor in the ignition of the fire,” investigators said in the Cal Fire report. “Had PG&E arrived on the scene earlier, they could have detected the fault … before it had time to ignite a receptive fuel.”“There was no indication of an emergency until our troubleman arrived at the scene soon after the fire had started.
That’s hardly comforting to Greenville residents who had their town pretty much destroyed by the ensuing blaze. All told, the Dixie Fire burned nearly 1 million acres, 1,300 structures and more than half of Lassen Volcanic National Park. The cost of fighting the Dixie Fire was $637 million, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, the most costly wildfire to combat in U.S. history.
But Cal Fire said in its report that the tree in question was “damaged and decaying” when it fell and contacted the PG&E transmission line.
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