This situation is actually similar to the black Saturday bushfires in Australia - also caused by power lines. The utility eventually settled for half a billion

This situation is actually similar to the black Saturday bushfires in Australia - also caused by power lines. The utility eventually settled for half a billion dollars. Meaningless if you look up the loss of life. (Maybe somewhat different because every type of bushfire prevention strategy was in place / overwhelmed and I don't know what the situation is in California.)