Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has released a photograph of the broken hook on its Butte County power tower involved in the ignition of the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history last year.
PG&E provided the image Thursday at the request of a federal judge who saw it was redacted in a recent regulatory report about the 2018 Camp Fire. But lawyers for other groups had already given a similar image to a different federal judge more than one week earlier.
The photo PG&E sent to U.S. District Judge William Alsup shows a white-gloved hand gripping the base of a mostly rust-colored metal object that is attached to a hook cut off just after its “C” shape begins to turn upward. In the background is yellow material on which “PG&E” is written...state investigators announced in May that PG&E high-voltage power lines started the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed more than 18,800 buildings in November 2018. But Cal Fire has not released its report on the underlying causes of the historic disaster because Butte County prosecutors are still conducting a criminal investigation.
Also, the California Public Utilities Commission recently released a report from the safety and enforcement staff about its investigation into the Camp Fire. The report concluded that PG&E did not properly inspect and maintain the Butte County transmission line in question...
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Turning off the power is certainly the answer for all of the fires in California. Now the greenies will need candles and charcoal to live with light and to cook. I wish them luck. In fact PG&E should shut down all of their transmission lines for at least a year to see if that really influences the occurrence of wild land fires. Just think how wonderful California will be when 90% of the idiots move to Oregon and Washington and start fires there.
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