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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric confessed Tuesday to killing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710884/list-of-those-who-died-in-butte-county-paradise-camp-fire\">84 people\u003c/a> by causing the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history during a dramatic court hearing Tuesday, punctuated by a promise from the company's outgoing CEO that the utility will never again put profits ahead of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E CEO Bill Johnson appeared in a Butte County courthouse to plead guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the November 2018 Camp Fire, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire/\">ignited by the utility's crumbling electrical grid\u003c/a>. The blaze nearly wiped out the entire town of Paradise and drove PG&E into bankruptcy early last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the mass deaths it caused, PG&E also pleaded guilty to one felony count of unlawfully starting a fire as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b9a1b0ea20a2f76307cafcc6c64000bc\">agreement\u003c/a> with District Attorney Mike Ramsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Butte County Superior Court Judge Michael Deems read the names of each victim, Johnson acknowledged the horrific toll of PG&E's history of neglect while solemnly staring at photos of each dead person shown on a screen set up in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No words from me could ever reduce the magnitude of that devastation or do anything to repair the damage,\" Johnson said in a statement afterward. “I hope the actions taken today bring some measure of peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11710884 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1070764466-e1544221282927-1038x576.jpg']He also assured the judge that PG&E took responsibility for all the unnecessary devastation that it caused “with eyes wide open to what happened and to what must never happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson was hired about six months after the Camp Fire and plans to step down as CEO on June 30, when PG&E hopes to have won court approval for its plan to get out of its second bankruptcy case in 16 years. A mostly new board of directors recently announced by PG&E as part of a deal with California will hire his replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's extraordinary court hearing was set up to publicly shame PG&E for past practices that emphasized boosting profits to keep investors happy instead upgrading and maintaining its crumbling equipment to protect the 16 million people who rely on the utility for power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fire's victims were elderly or disabled. They took desperate measures to save themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Clark, Jr., 49, was found in the passenger seat of a car his 72-year-old mother was driving. Their car was in a line of three other vehicles with bodies of victims in each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Magnuson, 75, was found inside her home, wrapped in a wet carpet in the bathtub in a futile attempt to save herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 family members of the people killed are expected to make statements in court Wednesday. Deems is expected to formally sentence PG&E either Thursday or Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they discussed charging utility individuals but decided they lacked the evidence to do so, which means no one will go to prison for the crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Ramsey, Butte County district attorney\"]'We show that [PG&E] was absolutely criminally responsible for the death and destruction visited upon our friends, family and neighbors here in Butte County.'[/pullquote]PG&E has agreed to pay a maximum fine of $3.5 million in addition to $500,000 for the cost of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeding unfolded as PG&E approaches the end of a complicated bankruptcy case that it used to work out $25.5 billion in settlements to pay for the damages from the fire and others that torched wide swaths of Northern California and killed dozens of others in 2017. The bankruptcy deals include $13.5 billion earmarked for wildfire victims. A federal judge is expected to issue a final decision on PG&E’s plan by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Put Profits Over Safety, Grand Jury Report Says\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Butte County's district attorney also released a summary of a scathing grand jury report Tuesday, finding that PG&E officials repeatedly ignored warnings about its failing power lines, performed inadequate inspections to focus on profits and refused to learn from past catastrophes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We show that [PG&E] was absolutely criminally responsible for the death and destruction visited upon our friends, family and neighbors here in Butte County,\" District Attorney Mike Ramsey said. \"We uncovered a corporate culture that started sometime back, but specifically in the mid '90s, to squeeze every dime they could with creative risk management mumbo jumbo, and to find creative financing to get as much profit as they could. They basically put profit above safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E exhibited “a callous disregard” for the life and property of residents before its equipment ignited the Camp Fire, the 92-page summary said. “Through a corporate culture of elevating profits over safety by taking shortcuts in the safe delivery of an extremely dangerous product – high-voltage electricity – PG&E certainly lead otherwise good people down an ultimately destructive path.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report paints a damning picture of PG&E as an entity that regularly shirked accountability and was shameless in its unwillingness to learn from past failures. The San Francisco-based utility was convicted in 2016 of multiple federal felonies after one of its gas transmission lines exploded in San Bruno in 2010, killing eight people. That tragedy resulted in a criminal conviction that put PG&E on a five-year probation that ends in January 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators determined the cause of the Camp Fire was a suspension “C” hook on a transmission tower that had worn through after decades hanging in the Feather River Canyon. The report notes PG&E would have known had it bothered to inventory the hook, maintain thorough inspections with qualified inspectors or even listened to its own employees. But its line inspections were designed not to detect flaws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E transmission line towers on the Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's "probable" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmission towers on PG&E's Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's \"probable\" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E acquired the transmission line from the Great Western Power Company in 1930 and, despite realizing it was likely at the end of its life, did minimal maintenance and repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In essence, in 1930 PG&E blindly bought a used car. PG&E drove that car until it fell apart,\" according to the report. “A reasonable person has the common sense to know that service and maintenance become more important as the car ages and the miles accumulate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Catastrophic failure ... was not an ‘if' question; it was a ‘when’ question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the report notes, a PG&E engineer requested $800,000 to replace a section of the Caribou-Palermo line, writing of “multiple conductor failures” because of aging equipment. The engineer noted “the probability of that failure is imminent due to the age of both the towers and the conductor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility officials allocated $200,000 to the project, but the work was scrapped in 2009 against the project manager’s concerns that without upgrades, “we could be picking up these towers out of the Feather River Canyon when they fall over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"pge\" label=\"related coverage\"]In December 2012, a transmission tower on the line collapsed, dragging down four other towers and damaging a fifth. A PG&E engineer recommended inspecting the other towers, which did not happen “consistent with PG&E’s practice of not following up on clearly established potential safety and/or maintenance issues,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors found the inspections and patrols of the Caribou-Palermo line were hastily done and conducted by inexperienced, untrained and unqualified “troublemen.” The company also routinely moved money for repairs to its capital budget so it could pass the costs to consumers rather than shareholders, the grand jury found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being on probation that meant the company must not commit another crime, investigators said its negligence resulted in multiple wildfires in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it acknowledges it still has a lot of catching up to do after years of neglecting its equipment, PG&E maintains its electrical grid is far less dangerous than before the Camp Fire. Under a judge's orders, it says it has spent more than $1 billion trimming 1.3 million trees near its power lines and conducting exhaustive inspections for potential trouble spots. PG&E has budgeted another $1.3 billion this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are intently focused on reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities,” PG&E CEO Bill Johnson pledged after pleading guilty on behalf of the utility Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also indicated in court that the grand jury findings wouldn't say anything PG&E doesn't already know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our equipment started that fire,” Johnson ruefully acknowledged. ”PG&E will never forget the Camp Fire and all that it took away from the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite PG&E’s pledge, critics fear more danger looms during an upcoming wildfire season after an unusually dry winter in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Lily Jamali.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, PG&E released results of a vote crucial to its exit from bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire survivors with wildfire-related claims against PG&E had overwhelmingly approved a multi-billion dollar compensation deal with the utility \"by in excess of 85 percent,\" PG&E reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a KQED investigation found a larger subset of fire survivors than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11819900/crucial-vote-on-pge-settlement-marked-by-late-ballots-high-emotion-for-some-fire-survivors\">previously reported\u003c/a> got their ballots weeks after the dates by which PG&E said they were mailed out, raising continued questions about the integrity of the voting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is racing to have its bankruptcy plan confirmed by June 30 so that it can tap a state wildfire insurance fund in time for the peak of this year's fire season. For that to happen, two-thirds of the fire survivors who voted on the settlement deal had to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 45,000 of the 51,000 fire claimants who voted supported the deal, according to Prime Clerk – the company PG&E hired to manage the process – but approximately 36,000 others either did not vote or had their ballots discarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What remains unclear is how many of those 36,000 fire survivors were impacted by issues with the voting process – a margin large enough to potentially sway the vote's outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Late Ballots for Hundreds of Fire Survivors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While PG&E maintains that all voting materials were sent out by April 8, more than 200 fire survivors interviewed by KQED said they didn't receive their packets until May. A substantial portion got their packets less than a week before May 15, the deadline they were due to be received by Prime Clerk to be counted. Some got their ballots after that deadline had passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire survivors were supposed to have six weeks to read through the complex materials, a timeframe agreed on by PG&E and several other parties, including the official committee for fire survivors – and approved by U.S. Judge Dennis Montali, who is presiding over PG&E's bankruptcy trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interviews were conducted with a cross-section of fire victims, holding claims of various sizes from various fires, and expressing a range of opinions on the settlement. Claimants had the option to vote by phone, email or by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Fire survivor Amy Byrd received her packet on May 18 – three days after the deadline. That left her scrambling to figure out how to make her vote count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did it online and tried to find a way to put in a comment letting them know I had just received the ballot, but they would not let me do that,\" Byrd told KQED in a phone interview. In a recent court filing, Prime Clerk included Byrd's name on a list of about 1,000 votes discarded because they arrived after the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they dropped the ball,\" Byrd said of PG&E, despite her position in support of the settlement deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11822717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots.jpg\" alt=\"Camp Fire survivors Amanda Michaels and Eric Forrester noted the dates they received their voting packets on the PG&E fire settlement from Prime Clerk. Michaels reported she got her mailing on May 14, the day before the deadline to vote. Forrester said he received his on May 17, two days after ballots were due back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11822717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots-1020x702.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camp Fire survivors Amanda Michaels and Eric Forrester noted the dates they received their voting packets on the PG&E fire settlement from Prime Clerk. Michaels reported she got her mailing on May 14, the day before the deadline to vote. Forrester said he received his on May 17, two days after ballots were due back. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amanda Michaels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tom Hess, another Camp Fire survivor, agreed. He got his voting packet on May 15, the day it was due back to Prime Clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just assumed that my vote did count and they would recognize my issue,\" said Hess, who noted the problem on his ballot, which he mailed to Prime Clerk in New York. Like many fire survivors, Hess learned that his vote had been discarded during his interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't have a ton of confidence in the whole system,\" Hess said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Court Weighs Integrity of Voting Process\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The integrity of the voting process has emerged as a central theme in PG&E's bankruptcy confirmation trial, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821101/pges-bankruptcy-trial-opens-with-attacks-on-wildfire-settlement-voting-process\">began last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Clerk has documented 10,000 holders of fire claims who were not included in the final voting tally for reasons including late receipt, lack of signature or no vote indicated. Some opponents of the deal are calling for an independent examiner to be appointed to audit the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That request will be the subject of a hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent testimony, Prime Clerk Vice President of Global Corporate Actions Christina Pullo, who supervised the voting process, acknowledged she knew some fire survivors had gotten the mailing days after the vote had ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We received inquiries from people stating that they had just received voting packages,\" Pullo told Camp Fire victim Mary Kim Wallace, who cross-examined her during the trial on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pullo estimated that \"a handful\" of people had complained. All voting materials were served by first-class mail, but envelopes were not postmarked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can only say we sent out materials,\" Pullo testified. \"I can't speculate as to why they did not receive them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11819900 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Camp-Fire-Aftermath-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pullo also stated that Prime Clerk emailed claimants on April 3. Wallace, who received her packet on the day after the deadline, explained that she lives without reliable internet access or cell service, as do other survivors living in the footprint of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pullo and Prime Clerk's CEO, Shai Waisman, did not reply to phone calls and emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has declined to acknowledge that delays took place despite several inquiries since early May, when KQED first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815472/as-pge-fire-survivors-near-deadline-to-vote-on-settlement-some-still-dont-have-ballots\">reported\u003c/a> the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We very much want to do right by the people and communities who have suffered so much as a result of wildfires in recent years,\" said PG&E spokesperson Andrew Castagnola in a statement. \"Our Chapter 11 process is intended to get them paid fairly and quickly, and we are in the final stages of being able to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']PG&E needed support from two-thirds of fire claimants who vote. But the company failed to secure enough of a margin of \"Accept\" votes to decisively dismiss questions about the role that mailing delays may have played in the vote's outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pullo wrote in a court filing Tuesday that the outcome was unlikely to change because only one in six claims received late were from opponents of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Ellias, who teaches bankruptcy law at UC Hastings College of the Law, told KQED he's not sure if the result would change if all survivors had received their voting materials on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The goal of the voting process was to bring everybody in, and it seems like they have fallen a little bit short,\" Ellias said. \"People voting in bankruptcy processes are often sophisticated hedge funds, and I think what we're seeing is that we may need a different paradigm when you have large numbers of disaster or tort victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Camp Fire survivor Theresa McDonald wrote the court to register her support for an examiner of voting irregularities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In explaining why it matters to fire victims, she wrote: \"It is a necessary piece of the puzzle I am trying to put together to understand the entire Camp Fire event. 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Some got their ballots after that deadline had passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire survivors were supposed to have six weeks to read through the complex materials, a timeframe agreed on by PG&E and several other parties, including the official committee for fire survivors – and approved by U.S. Judge Dennis Montali, who is presiding over PG&E's bankruptcy trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interviews were conducted with a cross-section of fire victims, holding claims of various sizes from various fires, and expressing a range of opinions on the settlement. Claimants had the option to vote by phone, email or by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Fire survivor Amy Byrd received her packet on May 18 – three days after the deadline. That left her scrambling to figure out how to make her vote count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did it online and tried to find a way to put in a comment letting them know I had just received the ballot, but they would not let me do that,\" Byrd told KQED in a phone interview. 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Forrester said he received his on May 17, two days after ballots were due back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11822717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/PGE-late-ballots-1020x702.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camp Fire survivors Amanda Michaels and Eric Forrester noted the dates they received their voting packets on the PG&E fire settlement from Prime Clerk. Michaels reported she got her mailing on May 14, the day before the deadline to vote. Forrester said he received his on May 17, two days after ballots were due back. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amanda Michaels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tom Hess, another Camp Fire survivor, agreed. He got his voting packet on May 15, the day it was due back to Prime Clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just assumed that my vote did count and they would recognize my issue,\" said Hess, who noted the problem on his ballot, which he mailed to Prime Clerk in New York. Like many fire survivors, Hess learned that his vote had been discarded during his interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't have a ton of confidence in the whole system,\" Hess said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Court Weighs Integrity of Voting Process\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The integrity of the voting process has emerged as a central theme in PG&E's bankruptcy confirmation trial, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821101/pges-bankruptcy-trial-opens-with-attacks-on-wildfire-settlement-voting-process\">began last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Clerk has documented 10,000 holders of fire claims who were not included in the final voting tally for reasons including late receipt, lack of signature or no vote indicated. 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"content": "\u003cp>California power regulators on Thursday unanimously approved PG&E's $58 billion plan for getting out of bankruptcy, despite ongoing worries about the utility's ability to safely operate its crumbling electrical grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote by the California Public Utilities Commission came just a few hours after a federal judge ripped the company for continuing to engage in reckless behavior that he believes is endangering even more lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge William Alsup blasted PG&E for \"flim flamming\" him about its newfound commitment to safety in previous hearings. He also raised worries that state power regulators haven't done enough to prevent \"a recalcitrant criminal\" from causing more death and destruction as the risk of wildfires rises with the summer temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there ever was a corporation that deserved to go to prison, it is PG&E,\" Alsup said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After enduring Alsup's scorn, PG&E cleared a key hurdle to end its nearly year-and-half bankruptcy with the CPUC's approval of a complex plan resolving more than $50 billion in claimed losses after the company was blamed for igniting a series of catastrophic wildfires in 2017 and 2018. 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Half of the $13.5 billion consists of PG&E stock that critics worry will be worth considerably less, especially if the company is blamed for causing more fires this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before regulators voted, a litany of speakers urged the company's chief regulator to reject the complex proposal, saying it doesn't do enough to ensure the nation's largest utility will act to protect the 16 million people who rely on it for power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More communities are angry, frustrated and finished with PG&E,\" commission President Marybel Batjer acknowledged before the agency's vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC.jpg\" alt=\"CPUC President Marybel Batjer listens as PG&E executives speak at an emergency meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11781226\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPUC President Marybel Batjer listens as PG&E executives speak at an emergency meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After gaining the CPUC's approval, PG&E issued a statement promising to do better. 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But the ones he saw seemed unclear about whether or not they should wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some folks were hiking with masks, some folks were hiking with mask-in-hand in case they came across people,” Lauretig said. “And some didn’t have any masks at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Memorial Day weekend is one of the few national holidays deeply associated with getting out of the house and exploring the great outdoors. And while the COVID-19 pandemic has upended many family outings, some park restrictions are easing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two national parks in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm\">Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm\">Redwood National Park\u003c/a> — have announced partial reopening with some restrictions. 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Visitor centers will also be closed, so Lauretig said you should come prepared with a map of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you should also make sure to have a backup plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you even get into the park, think about some other hikes or other places you want to go visit,” Lauretig said. “Maybe Joshua Tree National Park is way too busy to go visit on Memorial Day weekend, there’s plenty of places to explore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you get ready to head out, here are some recommendations:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Check out the park before you go\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some parks only have 50% parking lot capacity, some are only open for day use and others are closed entirely. Before you leave, call the park or check online to make sure you know the restrictions before you head out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plan ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember: Most bathroom facilities at parks are not open or will not have essential hygiene materials like soap or hand sanitizer. With many businesses closed, or operating with limited hours, make sure to pack what you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a short list to get you started:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Water\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sunscreen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hand sanitizer\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Map of the park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Make a backup plan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Let’s say you get to a state park and the parking lot is absolutely packed. Or you can see from the sidewalk that there are definitely too many people at this trailhead to allow for safe social distancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s your next best option? Make a mental (or physical) list of places you could go instead and make a backup plan for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Keep an eye out for wild animals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With reports across the state of increased coyote sightings and rattlesnakes sunning in the middle of park paths, Sandoval said visitors should be cautious since some wild animals have become accustomed to a human-free environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t put your hands and your feet where your eyes have not seen,” Lauretig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks driving to Joshua Tree and other desert parks should also be cautious of tortoises along the roadway, said Lauretig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tortoises are foraging on all this green food and flowers and things,” he said. “So folks need to slow down and really be careful about when they pull off the road, or if they see something round down the road in front of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11819800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11819800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Slow-for-Tortoise-Joshua-Tree.jpg\" alt=\"A sign reads 'Slow For Tortoise' in Joshua Tree National Park on May 18, one day after the park reopened after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Slow-for-Tortoise-Joshua-Tree.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Slow-for-Tortoise-Joshua-Tree-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Slow-for-Tortoise-Joshua-Tree-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Slow-for-Tortoise-Joshua-Tree-1020x628.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reads ‘Slow for Tortoise’ in Joshua Tree National Park on May 18, one day after the park reopened after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Follow park rules\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>True before the pandemic and still true now: It’s a good idea to follow the rules at a public park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval said because there’s less park staff in the area due to COVID-19, visitors should take extra care to leave no trace.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Keep it moving\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While park facilities are opening up for hiking and walking, visitors are being asked, for the most part, not to stick around in one area for too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the majority of the beaches, we’re asking people not to bring coolers, chairs, not to linger. Only active recreation is allowed,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good rule of thumb? Don’t bring anything you don’t want to carry around all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stay safe!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While it can be easy to forget the state of the world while standing under towering redwoods or staring at the vastness of the ocean, remember: The standard coronavirus health guidelines still apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure to maintain at least 6 feet of distance from others, carry a mask with you and don’t gather with people you don’t live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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