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And to me, the fact that the fires would happen for other reasons is the most important thing in the case. Blame should fall on the people with the power to pre
by DuskStar 6y ago
And to me, the fact that the fires would happen for other reasons is the most important thing in the case. Blame should fall on the people with the power to prevent an accident from happening, and PG&E did not have that power. (They instead had the power to prevent the accident from happening in one specific way, but it still would have happened in another way)
- _ph_ 6y agoI don't claim that blame for the fires rests on PG&E. My point was rather, that the towers were in an unacceptable state of maintenance. Any kind of accident or disaster could happen any time from towers in that state. And a disaster did happen. That others greatly contributed greatly or even mainly to the disaster taking its scale, is a question for the precise liability and punishment split.
- DuskStar 6y agoAnd what I'm saying is that if every tower in the forest was in a similar state of maintenance, or had a flamethrower pointing off the side that went off every week, the number of deaths would be lower.