North Bay Fire InvestigationNorth Bay Fire Investigation
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Gov. Brown Signs Major Wildfire Reforms, Utility Protections Into Law
California Legislature Passes Major Reforms to Wildfire Law
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No Changes Coming to State Wildfire Liability Law This Year
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Gov. Brown Proposal Would Make It Harder to Sue Utilities for Fire Damages
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Up from the Ashes, a group representing trial lawyers and people who lost homes in the fire, spent more than half a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is the most hotly contested part of a wide-ranging plan to reduce the threat of wildfires, which have been larger and more destructive in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also requires investor-owned utilities — including PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — to harden their equipment so it’s less likely to cause fires. It would make it easier, in some circumstances, to do prescribed burns, clear dead trees and brush, log trees and build fire breaks. It includes $1 billion over the next five years for those purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other bills Brown signed is a measure aiming to triple the amount of land in California treated with prescribed burns and to limit liability for private landowners conducting controlled burns on their property. The bill helps clarify that landowners who get a permit to conduct a prescribed burn and comply with its terms have done their due diligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These private landowners were afraid to get permits because they were afraid of getting sued if something happened,” Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Santa Barbara Democrat who wrote the bill, told media during a conference call earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also signed bills to maintain insurance coverage following disasters, improve emergency notifications and to require that garage door openers have a battery backup so people can get their cars out even if the power goes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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It seeks to determine how much liability the utility can absorb without triggering severe consequences like bankruptcy, and allows any additional costs to be billed to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For fires sparked in the future, the bill allows the California Public Utilities Commission to consider a variety of factors — including weather conditions, a utility’s efforts to prevent fires and findings of mismanagement — to decide whether electric companies can pass costs to consumers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility protections are part of more than two dozen bills Brown signed to reduce the risk of wildfires, including efforts to make it easier to conduct controlled burns that aim to clear out dry vegetation that would fuel wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is facing dozens of lawsuits from insurers, which have spent billions settling insurance claims from homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have ruled that utilities are entirely liable for damage caused by their equipment, even if the utility followed all safety precautions. 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"content": "\u003cp>A massive, controversial bill aimed at tackling California’s worsening wildfire problem — and at making sure Pacific Gas & Electric doesn’t go bankrupt from lawsuits related to last year’s North Bay fires — overwhelmingly passed the state legislature late Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have done everything we could to protect victims and ratepayers in this package,” said Senator Bill Dodd, D-Napa, the bill’s author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package of wildfire reforms passed the Senate on a 29-4 vote, and cleared the Assembly on a 45-10 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 901 would funnel $1 billion to fire prevention work, like forest thinning and brush clearing, over the next five years. It would also streamline the processes for that sort of prevention work, particularly for small landowners, with a focus on allowing the removal of more small and mid-sized trees. The idea is to reduce the fuel load and make wildfires less likely, or, when they do break out, less devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most controversially, it also makes changes to utility laws around liability for wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would allow utilities that caused last year’s devastating wildfires in Northern and Central California to issue bonds to help pay for their liability costs; and opens the door for those costs to be passed on to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents charged that the provisions amount to a bailout for PG&E. Senator Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, said PG&E invested less in prevention than other utilities, but will be able to recoup losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill rewards their bad behavior,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation could result in ratepayers eating the costs of future fires as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2019, the California Public Utility Commission would be allowed to consider a broader range of factors when deciding if costs can be passed on to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And backers of the bill contend that lawmakers must to everything possible to avoid what they call the worst-case scenario: a utility bankruptcy that would trigger corporate restructuring and spikes in rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bankruptcy] means that so many of our citizens who were uninsured or underinsured will likely not recover from wildfire devastation,” said Dodd. “We just cannot allow that to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown had proposed a more expansive softening of state liability law, which currently allows property owners to seek compensation from utilities that cause fires, even if the electric company didn’t act negligently. PG&E had lobbied hard for a complete repeal of that law, saying their future was at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after weeks of debate, Dodd, the bill’s original author, said lawmakers wouldn’t touch that law, known as “inverse condemnation,” this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they came up with this compromise, which some ratepayer advocates and large corporate electricity customers oppose but PG&E, firefighters, and some wildfire victims support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to PG&E critics — and the state’s largest utility didn’t seem to have a lot of supporters in the Capitol — the bill also prohibits electrical and gas utilities from using ratepayer money on executive salaries or bonuses. It also requires utilities to come up with a wildfire mitigation plan and for them to hire an independent evaluator to assess whether they are complying with the plan and to assess each company’s “safety culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 58-page bill was the result of weeks of work by a bipartisan, joint legislative committee that convened as more wildfires ravaged California this summer. It was finalized at the last possible moment and resulted in furious lobbying in recent days from both supporters and opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For this legislative session, there is no issue that was as intense as this issue,” concluded Assemblyman Chad Mayes, R-Yucca Valley.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4783753-Letter-to-USACE-8-22-18.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scathing letter\u003c/a> to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this week, detailing extensive damage done to homeowners’ properties by Army Corps’ contractors during the North Bay wildfire cleanup effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It charges the Army Corps with failing to properly oversee the cleanup, failing to communicate with the state and failing to remedy damage to homeowners’ property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to this egregious oversight, USACE’s contractors caused substantial damage to many survivors’ properties resulting in re-victimization of the affected wildfire survivors,” reads the letter from Cal OES Director Mark Ghilarducci to the Army Corps’ South Pacific Division Commander Col. 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But, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681280/cleaning-up-inside-the-wildfire-debris-removal-job-that-cost-taxpayers-1-3-billion\">KQED reported earlier\u003c/a>, many homeowners had outstanding issues with the project from over-excavated lots to damaged septic systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Cal OES hired contractors and consultants to backfill some over-excavated lots and to assess and repair damaged properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the letter, in Sonoma County alone they found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>600 reports of overscraping\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>80 additional properties that are so over-excavated a major engineering fix will be required\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>260 properties with other damage to septic systems, wells, driveways, and retaining walls\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>12-plus sites cleared by USACE still contaminated by ash and fire debris\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11688790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-800x101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-800x101.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-160x20.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-1020x128.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-1200x151.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-1180x149.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-960x121.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-240x30.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-375x47.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM-520x65.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-4.43.15-PM.png 1874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Peterson, Chief of Public Affairs for the Army Corps’ South Pacific Division, said Colloton would need to coordinate with FEMA before responding formally to Ghilarducci’s letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said while he understands that some homeowners have outstanding issues, the size and scope of the cleanup project was massive, and that Army Corps’ personnel worked 12-hour days, seven days a week to complete the removal of 1.7 million tons of debris from Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino and Napa Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at houses being rebuilt right now,” Peterson said. “So we’re seeing mission accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson also said that this was the first time the Army Corps had done a wildfire debris removal job, and that it learned lessons along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, Ghilarducci called on the Army Corps to re-engage with the state to fix some of the costly issues that remain for homeowners. 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She represents Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, which were devastated by the massive Thomas Fire last December, and is pushing \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1260\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legislation\u003c/a> that would expand prescribed burns and other forest management practices on both public and private lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been doing less and less to try to clear vegetation, to do controlled burns so that we can reduce the dead vegetation that we have,” she said. “And as a result, we have conditions that are seeing fruition with these enormous and out of control fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson says after years of inaction, everyone in California is finally at the table — including environmental groups — supporting the measure and engaging in a conversation around forest management. Gov. 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It would seek to expand use of the federally regulated, wireless emergency alert system in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has changed and governments must adjust, Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to be warned about danger with the church bells, and then during the Cold War with Russia, we had a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONELRAD\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONELRAD\u003c/a> alert system. … We don’t have any of those things today,” she said. “We rely upon people’s cell phones. … Fewer and fewer people actually have landlines today. So we’ve got to adapt and that’s what this program will hopefully do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the national level, there’s also political maneuvering over fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited a fire zone in Northern California earlier this month and promised to start providing federal emergency funding earlier. 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