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Yet another record-setting fire started by PG&E. https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/pge-may-be-linked-to-dixie-fire/103-540294e8-8c6f-413c-b7f1-

• dougSF70 5y ago
  A combination of increasing electricity consumption per capita combined with a lack of investment is a perfect storm for wildfires.
• pengaru 5y ago
  The elephant in the room is having huge swaths of the state requiring nothing more than a spark to go cataclysmic. Lightning strikes, failing catalytic converters w/side exit tailpipes spewing hot sparks, careless campers, arson, there's an endless list of sources for that spark. It strikes me as ridiculous PG&E takes so much blame, if there were no power lines California would still be burning.
• rexreed 5y ago
  Would these fires really not have started without PG&E as the most proximate source? The Mendocino Fire Complex, the largest in CA history, was sparked by lightning. Another fire was started by someone sparking it by hitting a metal spike trying to seal a wasp nest. If it wasn't PG&E, it surely would have been something else. The forest was/is a tinder keg waiting for a spark of any sort.