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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
So why is PG&E just lying down and taking this?
Are their principals and shareholders such self-loathing, guilt-ridden econuts, that they're willing to commit corporate suicide in the name of saving da planet?
Should they sue ‘sierra club’ and the ‘nrdc’ and all the other goronic ecowankers out there? Works for me.
Easily preventable. Just shut off the electricity on windy days.
Beware of roving AR-15 and PG&E roving gangs!
You have tree huggers blocking the clearing of trees and brush by the power lines. Now after the fire there are no trees or brush or homes because of their stupidity.
California will have to take over PG&E. The state will take control out of Bankruptcy. The liability to the company is too great. You can sue PG&E but can’t sue the state.
And who’s tax dollars will run the power company then?
Yes!
PAR35 wrote:”Easily preventable. Just shut off the electricity on windy days.”
That way none of the sprinkler systems will have water pressure because its all pumped with electric pumps, and when a fire does start and you have no power then you also have no water to fight it with. Great plan.
Burn it all down and start over, using the same plan.
Insanity.
SS1
It’s California - where actions don’t have consequences.
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