Posted on 05/16/2019 12:57:53 PM PDT by rktman
The 2018 Camp Fire is the deadliest fire in California history with a death toll of 85 plus nearly 19,000 homes and businesses destroyed. It has been suspected for months that the fire was started by a high voltage line that shorted out moments before the fire was first spotted. Today Cal Fire investigators made it official in a news release:
CAL FIRE investigators were immediately dispatched to the Camp Fire and began working to determine the origin and cause of the fire. After a very meticulous and thorough investigation, CAL FIRE has determined that the Camp Fire was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electricity (PG&E) located in the Pulga area.
The fire started in the early morning hours near the community of Pulga in Butte County. The tinder dry vegetation and Red Flag conditions consisting of strong winds, low humidity and warm temperatures promoted this fire and caused extreme rates of spread, rapidly burning into Pulga to the east and west into Concow, Paradise, Magalia and the outskirts of east Chico.
The investigation identified a second ignition sight near the intersection of Concow Rd. and Rim Rd. The cause of the second fire was determined to be vegetation into electrical distribution lines owned and operated by PG&E. This fire was consumed by the original fire which started earlier near Pulga.
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Get rid of PG&E. Problem solved.
Decent band, though.
Green power! Wind and solar. We don’t need no steenking power transmission lines! /s
Customers to pay the price.
Send these guys over to investigate the Notre Dame fire.
Hmmm... shouldn’t they be keeping dead timber and brush cleared way back from these transmission lines? Why do they allow all this dead and tinder dry fuel to pile up in our forest lands? /s
"...PG&E lines caused the deadly Camp Fire in California..."
Get rid of PG&E. Problem solved.
Sierra Club prohibited PG&E from managing vegetation near their power lines.
“Decent band, though.”
Dated material thou .. Are you Ready ?
If California took proper care of the Forests a spark would be a non-event.
It’s like someone pouring 10 gallons of gas on the road then blaming the guy who throws his cigarette butt out the window.
They're going to shut down power lines when there are high winds in Whackifornistan.
De Turd World has landed on the Left Coast.
Ref Sierra club saving baby owls by mandating leaving trash piles in place. Or something.
Gonna be a lot more of those rich CA lawyers...
The choice was a careless camper or a multi billion dollar company that could pay for the rebuilding. Which would you choose?
I’m no fan of PG&E, they should have pressed for more money from PUC for foilage control near their lines. But IMHO Cal-Fire and the state, county and city officials should have been more proactive in mandating brush and dead foilage removal. The fire could have just as easily been caused by lightening because of the excess fuel present. We’ve already seen the disaster of USFS management of our forests by not allowing naturally caused forest fires to thin the forests. Paradise was an extension of that same policy.
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