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Camp Fire 3 Years Later: Paradise Mayor on Community's Resiliency
Part of the rebirth of Paradise is Mayor Steve Crowder. He moved there eight years ago and was elected to the city council just days before the Camp Fire started. He lost his home and his businesses.
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California Marks 3rd Anniversary of Wildfire That Killed 85
Gov. Gavin Newsom has marked the third anniversary of California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire by announcing that nearly 100,000 damaged trees have been removed and debris cleaned up from some 11,000 properties.
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Explosive California Wildfires Could Burn Into December
California’s wildfires have already made plenty of news this summer, and the worst may be yet to come.
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How PG&E Is Fighting Its Massive Wildfire Problem With Microgrids, Power Shutoffs and Cutting Down Trees
California’s largest utility company has been blamed for half of the state’s most destructive fires since 2015. Now it has a plan to reduce the risk of sparks.
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Toxins Found in Air, Firefighter Gear Are Health Hazards: Report
Firefighters are now facing more fires and more toxic smoke than ever. There is now some new evidence of more poisons in the air they breathe and even in the gear they wear.
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Toxins Found in Air, Firefighters' Gear May Be Health Hazards: Report
Firefighters are now facing more fires and more toxic smoke than ever. There is now some new evidence of more poisons in the air they breathe and even in the gear they wear. Terry McSweeney reports.
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Bear Fire in Butte County Moves Toward Paradise, Worries Camp Fire Survivors
Just two years after the Camp Fire took lives and leveled entire neighborhoods, the Bear Fire has some leaving town just in case and others looking for a way to help.
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Bear Fire in Butte County Moves Towards Paradise, Worries Camp Fire Survivors
The Bear Fire burning across Butte County is triggering some very unwanted deja vu for thousands in the city of Paradise. Jodi Hernandez reports.
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‘Rebuilding Paradise' Looks at Emotional Toll of Deadly Fire
A new documentary focuses on the massive cleanup and rebuilding after the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.
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PG&E Fined $4 Million in Deaths of 84 People in 2018 Fire
Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday was fined $4 million for the deaths of 84 people killed in a nightmarish Northern California wildfire ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid. The sentencing comes as the nation’s largest utility prepares to end a 17-month bankruptcy proceeding triggered by the catastrophe.
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PG&E Admits Guilt in Camp Fire
PG&E’s top executive pleaded guilty on behalf of the company on Tuesday to 84 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 Camp wildfire, the most destructive in state history. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.
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PG&E Admits Guilt in Camp Fire
PG&E’s top executive pleaded guilty on behalf of the company on Tuesday to 84 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 Camp wildfire, the most destructive in state history.
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PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Deaths in 2018 Camp Fire
PG&E is due to plead guilty in Butte County Superior Court Tuesday to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the devastating 2018 Camp Fire that was caused by a break in a worn piece of equipment on a high-voltage transmission tower.
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Regulators Approve $1.9 Billion Settlement With PG&E, But Back Off on Major Fine
The state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a $1.9 billion settlement with PG&E that allows it to get credit for wildfire prevention spending while at the same time escape being fined $200 million over regulatory violations stemming from two years of massive wildfires.
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PG&E Won't Pay $4 Million Camp Fire Fine From $13.5B Wildfire Victims Fund
PG&E announced in San Francisco Monday that it has given up a controversial plan to pay a $4 million criminal fine to Butte County out of a proposed $13.5 billion trust to compensate wildfire victims.
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Calif. Utility Pleading Guilty in Wildfire Deaths
Pacific Gas & Electric will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for a swath of death and destruction left behind after its fraying electrical grid ignited a 2018 wildfire that decimated three Northern California towns and drove the nation’s largest utility into bankruptcy.
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Judge Orders PG&E to Explain How Tower Inspections Missed Wear
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...
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Judge Orders PG&E to Explain Tower Inspections
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.
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Volunteer Leads Effort to Build Tiny Homes for Camp Fire Survivors
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…
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Volunteer Leads Effort to Build Tiny Homes for Camp Fire Survivors
With the help of a growing number of volunteers, Alyssa Nolan has built and given away 13 tiny homes over the past year.