On Oct. 8, 2017, sparks from private electric equipment set fire to the dry hills of Northern California’s wine country, but it was only once the flames jumped from the grasslands to densely packed Santa Rosa that the destruction intensified. By the time the Tubbs Fire was fully contained, it had consumed some 5,600 buildings,… Continue reading Insurance Industry Report Shows California Homeowners Doomed to Repeat their Past Mistakes
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PG&E Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Fires as It Nears Bankruptcy Exit
PG&E Corp. pleaded guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter for its role in sparking California’s deadliest wildfire, on the same day that a separate judge said he would clear the way for the company to exit bankruptcy. The San Francisco-based utility became one of the few U.S. corporations to be convicted of homicide-related charges in… Continue reading PG&E Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Fires as It Nears Bankruptcy Exit