A federal court judge on Wednesday lashed out at PG&E over having missed signs of extensive wear on tower hooks just 200 feet from where a worn C-hook snapped on an aging tower and sparked the deadly Camp fire in 2018. U.S. Judge William Alsup gave the company two weeks to detail what inspectors found in a climbing inspection...

A federal court judge on Wednesday lashed out at PG&E over having missed signs of extensive wear on tower hooks just 200 feet from where a worn C-hook snapped on an aging tower and sparked the deadly Camp fire in 2018.

Alyssa Nolan knows what it feels like to lose everything. In 2008, Nolan’s home was destroyed in the Butte Complex Lightning Complex Fire. A mother with an infant at the time, Nolan remembers the helplessness she felt. She also remembers how she got back on her feet with the help of family, friends, and even complete strangers. “Part of my…

With the help of a growing number of volunteers, Alyssa Nolan has built and given away 13 tiny homes over the past year.

PG&E told a federal judge Wednesday that it had made progress but still fell short of meeting key terms of its probation designed to reduce wildfire dangers.

State regulators this week released a telltale photo showing the flashpoint of the Camp Fire, just as a regulatory judge gave PG&E until Friday to account for the tax benefits it could reap in the $1.6 billion deal struck with the CPUC’s safety arm over two years of devastating wildfires. The photo shows the spot where the Caribou-Palermo transmission...

State regulators this week released a telltale photo showing the flashpoint of the Camp Fire, just as a regulatory judge gave PG&E until Friday to account for the tax benefits it could reap in the $1.6 billion deal struck with the CPUC’s safety arm over two years of devastating wildfires. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Increasingly intense wildfires that have scorched forests from California to Australia are stoking worry about long-term health impacts from smoke exposure in affected cities and towns.

An American living in Australia who has endured wildfires on both continents is sharing heartfelt messages of hope and advice for those who have fled their homes Down Under.

Just months before the Camp Fire, PG&E engineers urged the utility to inspect steel hardware on high voltage transmission towers in high wind areas that could be prone to wind-driven corrosion damage – like the damage found on the tower blamed for the disaster.

Just months before the Camp Fire, PG&E engineers urged the utility to inspect steel hardware on high voltage transmission towers in high wind areas that could be prone to wind-driven corrosion damage – like the damage found on the tower blamed for the disaster. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

A federal judge has ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to account for what it knew about the risk of worn hooks on its system in light of a 1987 internal report of tests showing a risk of premature failure in worn hooks taken off its electric transmission towers – hooks similar to the one blamed for the massive and deadly Camp Fire.

A federal judge has ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to account for what it knew about the risk of worn hooks on its system in light of a 1987 internal report of tests showing a risk of premature failure in worn hooks taken off its electric transmission towers – hooks similar to the one blamed for the massive and deadly...

PG&E paid top execs $17 million in bonuses from 2012 to 2017, partly for meeting safety goals despite the fact that the company’s poor maintenance has been linked to deadly fires.

As flames started to rip through their communities on the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, people in Northern California’s Butte County picked up what they could and left, fleeing a firestorm with little more than the clothes on their back. “I got a call from my dad saying, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to talk to you again,’”...

PG&E was alerted more than 30 years before the deadly Camp fire about the failure risk of worn steel hooks like the one that snapped and caused the most destructive wildfire in state history, documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s investigative unit show.

As firefighters in Northern California’s wine country race to contain the devastating Kincade Fire that has ripped through more than 76,000 acres and destroyed 86 homes, a group of well-known Bay Area chefs have come together to feed the thousands of displaced evacuees and first responders.

PG&E was alerted more than 30 years before the deadly Camp fire about the failure risk of worn steel hooks like the one that snapped and caused the most destructive wildfire in state history, documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s investigative unit show. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Photos obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit reveal that several hooks on the Caribou-Palermo transmission line after the Camp fire last year show significant long-term wear – besides the hook that failed and sparked the fire.

An NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit analysis of newly obtained inspection records reveals that eight towers on the aging PG&E transmission system blamed in the Camp Fire had passed inspections just days before the blaze, only to fail emergency climbing inspections the company conducted in the days after.