[deport]

I like a good conspiracy theory but this one has no facts. Just supposition.

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Actually it matters not a whit whether the fires are started at the
transmission lever or at the intermediate delivery level or the local
home/commercial delivery level. So it’s much easier to cut the power
at the generation/transmission level than the local level.

[RedMonqey]

"Actually it matters not a whit whether the fires are started at the transmission lever or at the intermediate delivery level or the local home/commercial delivery level.

True, but it's much easier to blame Climate Change and PG and E than to admit to over forty years of idiotic governance by questionable pols like Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown or Gavin Newsome.