You're getting downvoted b/c there is enough negligence and history involved that there are other more proximate reasons so the "climate change" line feels off-

You're getting downvoted b/c there is enough negligence and history involved that there are other more proximate reasons so the "climate change" line feels off-topic, but, you're not wrong. The bad maintenance on the transmission tower is what created the spark, but there's also the point that the area was such a dry tinderbox that one spark was able to ignite the tragedy. Resilient systems don't show such fragility. The fact that an unattended campfire, a hot muffler, or any other number of things (inadvertent or intentional) could have caused the same effect shows there's a systemic challenge here. We can grab whatever we legally can from this business malfeasance, but systemic challenges are much harder to deal with (and there's no one to easily blame)... The tinderbox is not going away, and whatever comes after PG&E is going to be operating in a far riskier business environment.