California Wildfires
The Santa Cruz County sheriff promised to catch the crook "and the DA is going to hammer this guy."
People incarcerated in California are already fighting for their lives against a devastating pandemic. Now they are surrounded by flames, too.
“We are all experiencing rather extraordinary conditions,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said after losing over 200,000 acres to fires fueled by extreme heat and lightning.
The July Complex fire has grown to more than 81,000 acres and may grow more with forecasted hot and dry weather.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
“Our equipment started that fire,” said the utility company’s CEO of the devastating 2018 Camp fire that burned down virtually the entire town of Paradise.
The utility company, which started the 2018 Camp Fire, recently agreed to the fine and to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
California's plague of wildfires continues with the Cave Fire breaking out in the Los Padres National Forest.
The utility shut off power as a preventive effort ― but such cuts can leave vulnerable groups who depend on electricity at risk.
“I feel like I’m gonna be living in this RV for the rest of my life,” said one survivor of the Camp fire that burned down Paradise.
The move would lower costs for customers and shift the company's priorities away from paying dividends to shareholders, they wrote.