Deadly fires sparked by power lines
Sun, 06/10/2018 - 12:00am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Power lines owned by San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are to blame for a dozen wildfires in Northern California’s wine country last fall, including two that killed 15 people combined, the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday.
Investigators determined the fires — part of a series that were the deadliest in California history — were caused by PG&E-owned equipment.
All of the blazes that raged through California last October killed 44 people, destroyed 8,800 structures and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. About 11,000 firefighters from 17 states and Australia helped battle the blazes.
