Posted on 11/09/2018 8:13:23 PM PST by rintintin
PARADISE, Calif — Downed PG&E power lines, amid high winds, may have sparked the deadly Camp Fire that has destroyed the town of Paradise and killed at least nine people, according to hours of firefighter radio transmissions reviewed by Bay Area News Group.
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Not the first time. They’re pretty good at this.
Blaming the power company is so the lawyers can grab their money. The result is raised rates, a regressive tax. It hardly matters how the fire was started. What matters most is California’s lack of timbeing, controlled burns, brush clearing, road networks, and wildfire prevention in general. The US Government sucks at it too but they are geniuses compared to California.
Shirley you jest ... the power company doesn’t have the expertise to string power lines that can hold up in the environment ... maybe they need to be fired and replaced.
Apparently quite the tech task to put high voltage distribution underground, but vegetation clearing has been very technologically available for quite some decades.
Some deforestation is warranted for peeps living in some climates.
Exactly, bingo! PG&E has deep pockets, and the slip and fall lawyers will be on this soon. Result: higher rates for everyone, which is par for the course in the rabid leftist state of Californication. The new serial adulterer governor, Gavin Newsface, will see to it. I pity everyone in Californication.
It’s pretty clear over the last decade in Calif. that vegetation needs to be cleared for a vast swath from electrical distribution infrastructure.
Either that or peeps need to go off grid.
Have you ever been in an auto accident ?
I had the power company out to the ‘hood to review and discuss their distribution infrastructure.
They soon rebuilt the local Distribution [and severely trimmed trees close to the power lines] and we have had an order of magnitude improvement in reliability [or maybe inverse - 10x better in downtime/yr in any event].
Act locally for improvements from the power company and in reducing the threat of having your house go up in flames.
Thank God California doesn’t allow clearing of brush or this crise to not let go to waste might not have happened.
Not hobo campfires?
They could’ve shut the power off when the winds were forecasted to be hurricane strength. Apparently that fire was already burning and they decided against shut off. You can play Monday morning quarterback and blame lawyers but a whole town was destroyed and people died. You can’t clear all the brush and trees enough to stop fires. I live in the Sierras and once a fire starts with high winds nothing will stop it. We’ve had three fires in our area in the last three years started by downed power lines. One fire killed four people and destroyed 200 homes. PG&E has been totally irresponsible in these massive fires. You have to maintain the tension of the wires and keep branches from breaking the lines. These winds are wicked.
Just to give you an idea of what hapened yesterday in Paradise. 6453 homes destroyed—burned to the ground in an afternoon. 240 businesses gone. Magalia is still burning so we don’t know what extent of homes burned there yet. 90K+ acres in little more than a day and a half. Amazing.
The tax payers are on the hook thanks to Gov Moonbeam.
Utilities are the go-to perp in hopes of accessing the deep pockets and furthering the liberal agenda of labeling utilities as “EVIL”!
The winds had as much to do with it as the brush and other fuel. It was like standing behind a 747 on takeoff, according to my sources who were in the middle of it.
My wife us the Director of Ops for Travelers Property and called it last night. “Probably PG-E”!
I’m starting to wonder if Jerry and PGE haven’t formed some kind of unholy alliance.
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