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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Back in September when wildfire smoke hovered over the Bay Area, emergency alerts started popping up on people’s phones. Air quality reached hazardous levels for those with respiratory diseases, the alerts read. But for the thousands of Bay Area residents who speak a language other than English at home, it would take days for them to receive the same alert in their native language, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>According to reporting from El Timpano, more than a quarter of non-English speakers living in the Bay Area don’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language. Today, we’re going to dig into this language gap in local emergency alert systems here in the bay and how one county has been working to change that. Jasmine, I wonder if you can maybe just start by explaining when a disaster strikes, do we have systems set up to let everyone know when stuff hits the fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>The short answer, unfortunately, is for a lot of people, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jasmine Aguilera is a senior reporter for El Timpano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>For the most part, not everybody will receive timely and accurate information and in their own language or analysis adulting. But I found that of California’s 58 counties, only 21 offer alerts in a language other than English. We’re also giving these counties the benefit of the doubt because a lot of times we cannot actually test whether or not these alerts will send out until we can actually test their systems. 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You have to actually go to the county website, put in your information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And oftentimes these websites are asking for first name, last name, email addresses and home addresses. It is pretty obvious that if you’re an undocumented person, older person not familiar with technology, you may feel nervous about, you know, giving the government your personal address or you may not even understand what’s going on on this Web page. Many of the Web pages technically may offer a translated version if you select a widget at the top of the page to change your language preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>But if you’re not a tech savvy person, you may not know that at the top of the page where it says language, that means Ijeoma that you can change the language there. We found very few counties where you can text in to opt in, and even those it’s very hit or miss, whether or not even if you’re opting in, in your native language, whether you’ll actually receive ultimately those alerts in your native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about why it is an opt in system when any one of us would want to know what’s happening as soon as it happens, if there’s an emergency in our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>It sounds like a simple fix would be to create one gigantic system where people can opt in and then those that are at a federal level that exists. But we’re talking about a state that is gigantic, very complicated, very ecologically diverse. Disasters will vary depending on what part of the state you’re in. 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Everybody knows what to do whenever a disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And so what’s happened is over time, we have become true partners now with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And then on top of that, they’ve also created essentially this bank of alerts prepared in advance in English and Spanish at the county level. So we’re talking about thousands of clips of audio in English and Spanish that are localized per Sonoma County zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So if there’s, you know, flooding in zone four, you know, they’ve got a clip already prerecorded so that they can just send that out in a push of a button rather than, you know, trying to gather all of the people and find a translator and make sure, you know, that that it’s all recorded before sending. It saves potentially, you know, minutes or hours. 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They can right now in this moment, try to revamp their programs, because when a disaster hits, that’s you know, that’s not the moment that you need to be trying to fix your system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>My words of advice is, don’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how do we do that then, Jasmyne? How do we get other counties on the same level as Sonoma County here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>In the state of California themselves will tell you that every county has to own this. Lisa California, for example, it is a government level organization that will aid counties in revamping their system, that will provide, you know, language already pre written and resources already established. But each county needs to be able to own. They don’t want to step on toes is what they told me. 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So we took a look at the nine Bay Area counties here and determined that 3.2 million people here speak a language other than English at home. And because Alameda County and Solano counties do not offer alerts in a language other than English, we’re talking about at least 27% of the population that doesn’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So those two counties that you mentioned, Alameda and Solano County, are the only counties in the Bay Area who aren’t offering alerts in any language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Exactly. And I mean, two out of the nine. You know, that’s not bad. But these are counties with gigantic non-English populations. So it is a significant part of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, I wonder if we can step back a little bit and explain for us how these emergency alert systems work exactly and why is this happening? Where is the breakdown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So even signing up for alerts we found can be really challenging for non-English speakers. And we cover the Latino and Mayan immigrant communities here in the Bay Area. And we’ve done several surveys that show that often times, especially older immigrants do not have computers at home, do not have Internet at home. They may not even have an email address. And for the vast majority of California counties, you have to opt into the program. You have to actually go to the county website, put in your information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And oftentimes these websites are asking for first name, last name, email addresses and home addresses. It is pretty obvious that if you’re an undocumented person, older person not familiar with technology, you may feel nervous about, you know, giving the government your personal address or you may not even understand what’s going on on this Web page. Many of the Web pages technically may offer a translated version if you select a widget at the top of the page to change your language preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>But if you’re not a tech savvy person, you may not know that at the top of the page where it says language, that means Ijeoma that you can change the language there. We found very few counties where you can text in to opt in, and even those it’s very hit or miss, whether or not even if you’re opting in, in your native language, whether you’ll actually receive ultimately those alerts in your native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about why it is an opt in system when any one of us would want to know what’s happening as soon as it happens, if there’s an emergency in our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>It sounds like a simple fix would be to create one gigantic system where people can opt in and then those that are at a federal level that exists. But we’re talking about a state that is gigantic, very complicated, very ecologically diverse. Disasters will vary depending on what part of the state you’re in. And so purposefully, the state of California has tried to make sure that each county is empowered to design their own individual opt in programs because they want to make sure that officials can handle whatever disaster is going on on a very localized level. But that means there isn’t one simple solution if you’re trying to make sure that disaster responses can be very, very localized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And we found that, you know, sometimes there are the best intentions, just a lack of resources or other times they really just isn’t enough willpower to try to, you know, create a system. Maybe the population of non-English speakers is small enough that it’s just not top of mind for people when they’ve got so many other things that are on their plate. And then we found other counties that are in the middle of actually trying as hard as possible to create a robust system. But at least at the time of reporting, we found, you know, the vast majority of California’s programs are not up to the task right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about one Bay Area county that has put in the work to reach more residents in an emergency. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Your reporting kind of zoomed into one Bay Area county in particular that was really trying to get its act together specifically for the Spanish speaking population. Can you tell me about that and what what your reporting found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We didn’t have to look very far. We went over to Sonoma County and saw the steps that they’ve taken. Basically, I mean, officials, they themselves will say it’s because they’ve faced disaster after disaster after disaster essentially since 2017. And they realized since the Tubbs fire of 2017 that their communications were just lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>In 2017 when that fire hit. None of this was in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We spoke to Alma Bowen, who is the founder and executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, a nonprofit organization that focuses on disaster preparedness and reaching specifically Spanish speaking communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And there was no organization. And so there were either duplication of services or there were needs that were not met because we simply didn’t know who could fill those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, what they did is they revamped their Sonoma County coed community organizations active in disaster. That’s what the acronym for which was a coalition of nonprofit organizations that are all each doing their own individual work for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>As soon as they’re going to activate their EOC or emergency operations center. That call gets put to code. From that moment on, until the emergency sovereign shuts down, one of us is present in that room. The expectation is that the message is go out simultaneously and at least English and Spanish, because those are our highest populations. And then year round, that’s part of the conversations we’re always having with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And also giving them a seat at the county government table so that everybody is in communication. Everybody knows what to do whenever a disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And so what’s happened is over time, we have become true partners now with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And then on top of that, they’ve also created essentially this bank of alerts prepared in advance in English and Spanish at the county level. So we’re talking about thousands of clips of audio in English and Spanish that are localized per Sonoma County zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So if there’s, you know, flooding in zone four, you know, they’ve got a clip already prerecorded so that they can just send that out in a push of a button rather than, you know, trying to gather all of the people and find a translator and make sure, you know, that that it’s all recorded before sending. It saves potentially, you know, minutes or hours. It could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that, you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There’s still a lot of people who will be left out even now. But, you know, as far as we could see, they are the ones who have really taken on the task and have have tried to do as much as possible since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m wondering, Jasmine, why you think Sonoma County was able to get its act together in this where I guess address this and why haven’t other counties been able to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Alma Bowen said it best that Sonoma County really had no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>Had we not had Kincade Walbridge Glass, you know, all those different fires right out like almost on the heel of each other? I don’t know. It’s like every time a fire hit, it just kept smacking him into reality. You have to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>She also said it’s important for these counties in California to realize that they have time right now. They can right now in this moment, try to revamp their programs, because when a disaster hits, that’s you know, that’s not the moment that you need to be trying to fix your system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>My words of advice is, don’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how do we do that then, Jasmyne? How do we get other counties on the same level as Sonoma County here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>In the state of California themselves will tell you that every county has to own this. Lisa California, for example, it is a government level organization that will aid counties in revamping their system, that will provide, you know, language already pre written and resources already established. But each county needs to be able to own. They don’t want to step on toes is what they told me. It’s a matter of willpower and it’s a matter of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There is not a one size fits all that will solve the problem for each each county. We did find examples of other counties who are making efforts. They are taking steps at the moment. It’s a it’s a process. It takes time. I even in Sonoma County, it’s taken years. It’s complicated, but it’s also not complicated in a weird way. You know, there are solutions, there are models. Sonoma County is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s doable. It’s doable. What is your biggest takeaway from this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>My biggest takeaway really has been how essential language access is. It’s something that, you know, as an English speaker, as a bilingual speaker, but primarily English speaker. I realize the enormous privilege now that I have whenever I receive an alert about, you know, just a traffic jam in San Francisco that I can avoid, other people will probably get stuck up in that jam. Imagine, you know, just kind of the snowball effect there. If you get stuck in that traffic jam, you’re late for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And for me, maybe being late for work isn’t so much a significant thing. But for someone else who is an hourly worker, that’s significant. It’s not even just emergencies. Sometimes it’s as simple as just getting through your daily life. Making things more accessible through language, I think is kind of the least we can do in California. You know, the state with the largest immigrant population in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much, Ericka. Really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Jasmine Aguilera, a senior reporter for El Timpano. We’ll leave you a link to Jasmine’s full story in El Timpano. In our show notes, this 30 minute conversation with Jasmine was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer, she scored this episode and added all the tape, additional production support from me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast squad here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations Manager. Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern. And Holly Kernan, our Chief Content officer. The Bay is a production of your local public media station KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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The utility still faces criminal charges for the 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County that killed four people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two civil settlements are designed to accelerate payments to hundreds of people whose homes were destroyed so they can start rebuilding more quickly than those who suffered devastating losses in 2017 and 2018 blazes that also were ignited by PG&E’s equipment. Those fires prompted the utility to negotiate settlements that included $13.5 billion earmarked for victims — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-environment-and-nature-business-da3aa5f0c4831a613181bc3821c506a8\">money that still hasn’t been completely distributed\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jill Ravitch, Sonoma County district attorney\"]‘There are those who will say that PG&E bought its way out of a criminal prosecution. I look at it as doing the best that we could under the circumstances. … If I had a magic wand and I could wave it, maybe PG&E wouldn’t exist anymore.’[/pullquote]The deal also thrusts the utility back into five years of independent oversight, similar to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-business-fires-crime-california-367cb44acf704920a0c2a72d60890bc5\">criminal probation\u003c/a> it faced after being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11287618/pge-gets-3m-fine-for-san-bruno-blast-must-advertise-its-conviction-on-tv\">convicted in 2016 of six felony crimes\u003c/a> linked to a 2010 natural gas explosion that blew up a San Bruno neighborhood and killed eight people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch said the oversight was the biggest accomplishment to come from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited tools and criminal law to deal with corporations, and what we were able to do here was to get a five-year agreement that they will be overseen, that there will be an independent monitor, and that they will have to meet certain benchmarks,” she said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, PG&E has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires since 2017 that have destroyed more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed upward of 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-business-fires-crime-california-367cb44acf704920a0c2a72d60890bc5\">PG&E’s federal probation ended in late January\u003c/a>, prompting concerns from the federal judge who tried to force the utility to reduce fire risks by requiring more maintenance and reporting. U.S. District Judge William Alsup warned that PG&E remained a “continuing menace to California” and urged state prosecutors to try to rein in the company that provides power to 16 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement covering five of the six counties that settled, prosecutors said PG&E will be “essentially on a five-year probation” to be overseen by Filsinger Energy Partners, which already acts as a safety monitor for California power regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E will have to underwrite the federal monitor’s costs, up to $15 million annually, in addition to the $55 million in other payments and penalties that the utility expects to incur in the settlements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like Ronald Reagan said many years ago, trust but verify,” said Butte County DA Mike Ramsey. “This is our verification tool, that independent safety monitor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the separate million Sonoma County deal, Ravitch agreed to drop the 33 criminal charges she filed last year that accused PG&E of inadvertently injuring six firefighters and endangering public health with smoke and ash from the Kincade Fire that began in October 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said a PG&E transmission line sparked the fire, which destroyed 374 buildings in wine country and caused nearly 200,000 people to flee, the largest evacuation in the county’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravitch said state laws that limit punishment against a corporation to probation and fines helped motivate the settlements. She said if PG&E had been successfully prosecuted in the Sonoma County case, it would have paid a fine of just $9.4 million, most of which would have gone to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the county will now receive $20.25 million earmarked for nonprofits that help people affected by wildfires and for Santa Rosa Junior College so that it can expand fire safety and vegetation management programs. It also will reimburse the DA’s office for the costs of investigating and litigating the case, Ravitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are those who will say that PG&E bought its way out of a criminal prosecution,” she said. “I look at it as doing the best that we could under the circumstances. I’m just a prosecutor in Sonoma County. If I had a magic wand and I could wave it, maybe PG&E wouldn’t exist anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in the other five counties were exploring criminal charges in last year’s Dixie Fire — the second largest blaze in California’s history — before cutting the deal they said would yield far larger payouts than would a courtroom trial. Because there were no deaths in the Dixie Fire, prosecutors said the utility would have paid a maximum penalty of about $330,000 if it had been found guilty in a criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement for the Dixie Fire was made by district attorneys in Plumas, Lassen, Tehama, Shasta and Butte counties, which will collectively receive nearly $30 million.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"pacific-gas-and-electric\"]Even when PG&E pleaded \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bill-johnson-fires-us-news-courts-paradise-67810cb4d9b6b90e451415b76215d6c9\">guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter \u003c/a>for those killed in the 2018 Camp Fire, the company was fined just $3.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said the utility welcomed the chance to be more transparent — and ultimately more accountable — for its operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to doing our part, and we look forward to a long partnership with these communities to make it right and make it safe,” Poppe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money that PG&E will pay as part of the settlements will account for just a sliver of its anticipated liabilities in the Kincade, Zogg and Dixie fires. As of Dec. 31, PG&E estimated it likely will be held responsible for at least $2.3 billion in losses stemming from those wildfires. Some of the estimated $1.15 billion in damages caused by the Dixie Fire may be paid by a state-backed insurance fund that California lawmakers created after PG&E filed for bankruptcy in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s Dixie Fire burned nearly 1 million acres in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta and Tehama counties and destroyed more than 1,300 homes and other buildings. 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You’ve never accepted responsibility for any of these fires until it’s convenient or you’re up against the wall and have to plead guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge was especially critical of Schar’s contention that the company was denying the probation allegations because Shasta County investigators have not provided access to the remains of the tree that touched off the Zogg Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know good and well you started the fire,” Alsup said. “Yet you stand here and come up with good lawyer-like reasons why you can’t accept responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the company’s position “a very big disappointment to the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five years of my life, of your life, the public’s life and the U.S. attorney’s life down the drain because you won’t accept responsibility,” Alsup said. 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One possibility is that prosecutors could come back to court for an evidentiary hearing that would seek to prove that PG&E violated probation by starting the Sonoma and Shasta County fires.[aside postID=\"news_11891626,news_11890329\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Neither Stern nor PG&E attorney Schar sounded enthusiastic about the prospect of such a hearing, which would come with just half a month to go on the company’s probation and only weeks before the scheduled start of a preliminary hearing on Sonoma County’s 33-count criminal complaint arising from the Kincade Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option that Alsup raised is that the U.S. Attorney’s Office could make a motion to extend PG&E’s probation. The judge has said several times in court and in written orders that he lacked authority to extend the term of court supervision beyond five years — the maximum prescribed in federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup has made those statements despite \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21173406/usa-v-pge-us-attorneys-brief-on-extending-probation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an April 2019 brief\u003c/a> that prosecutors filed at his request. The filing said “it appears to be an open question” whether the court could impose a new term of probation that would stretch beyond five years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Neither Stern nor PG&E attorney Schar sounded enthusiastic about the prospect of such a hearing, which would come with just half a month to go on the company’s probation and only weeks before the scheduled start of a preliminary hearing on Sonoma County’s 33-count criminal complaint arising from the Kincade Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option that Alsup raised is that the U.S. Attorney’s Office could make a motion to extend PG&E’s probation. The judge has said several times in court and in written orders that he lacked authority to extend the term of court supervision beyond five years — the maximum prescribed in federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup has made those statements despite \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21173406/usa-v-pge-us-attorneys-brief-on-extending-probation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an April 2019 brief\u003c/a> that prosecutors filed at his request. The filing said “it appears to be an open question” whether the court could impose a new term of probation that would stretch beyond five years. PG&E attorneys, whom Alsup also asked to weigh in, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21173407/usa-v-pge-company-brief-on-extending-probation.pdf\">argued that federal law and court precedents bar the judge\u003c/a> from extending the probation beyond five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge told Stern on Monday that if prosecutors make a motion to extend probation, he would give it “serious consideration.” But he added: “I’m not saying I’d grant it. I’m just saying I didn’t realize it was an open question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said prosecutors will file a status report with the court later this week outlining how they plan to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the pending criminal cases in Shasta and Sonoma counties, Alsup urged prosecutors and judges in those jurisdictions “not to give up on probation” as part of a sentence if PG&E is found guilty or strikes some sort of plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E needs to be under the probation of somebody,” Alsup said. “PG&E should face probation, and some judge like me up in Shasta County or Sonoma County will be riding herd on them. That’s what needs to happen if we’re ever going to get PG&E under control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge concluded with an appeal to reporters to pay close attention to the criminal proceedings in Sonoma and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s how this is going to play out,” Alsup said. “PG&E will pay millions of dollars to these two counties and walk away as a convicted criminal, but it will not accept probation, and the counties will acquiesce in that. I ask the members of the press to watch that carefully and to hold the DAs accountable to putting this company on continued probation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup also heard briefly from Sonoma County resident Will Abrams, whose home was destroyed in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Abrams, a party to several California Public Utilities Commission proceedings on PG&E’s wildfire safety issues and to the company’s bankruptcy case, has urged the judge to impose a series of new probation conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Abrams has asked Alsup to consider ordering major changes to the company’s corporate and financial structure and require the company to adopt new safety accountability measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Abrams told the judge he should also conduct a hearing to determine whether PG&E should pay restitution to wildfire victims who were part of the $13.5 billion settlement that allowed the company to exit bankruptcy in 2020. Half of that settlement figure is in PG&E stock. Abrams told the judge that restitution is due because fires the company has started since the settlement have depressed the stock’s price, diminished the value of the settlement and harmed him and other wildfire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time they cause a fire, we suffer,” Abrams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup agreed with Abrams “that the victims have gotten a raw deal,” but added he wasn’t involved in the bankruptcy case and has no power to change its settlement terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He advised Abrams to talk to prosecutors “and see if you can convince the United States attorney to extend probation. I’m not saying I’d do it or not … but if the United States attorney doesn’t move for it, I’m not going to do it, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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PG&E had initiated a wildfire safety power shutoff in much of the county, but had left a high-voltage transmission line energized in The Geysers geothermal field, northwest of Calistoga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829285/pge-was-responsible-for-2019s-kincade-fire-cal-fire-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Fire announced\u003c/a> last July that its investigation of the fire traced the cause to a PG&E transmission tower in The Geysers. The firefighting agency said an energized cable on the tower had broken free, swung against the tower and caused an arc — a prolonged electrical discharge. Molten metal fell into the surrounding vegetation and, with winds in the area gusting over 80 mph, the resulting blaze began racing toward the towns of Geyserville and Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wildfire destroyed 174 homes and 200 other structures, burning vineyards and prompting authorities to order 100,000 residents from Geyserville, Windsor and Santa Rosa to leave their homes. Six firefighters were injured as crews struggled to stop the flames from making a catastrophic leap into more densely populated neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch said she and others from her office began investigating the scene of the fire start in 2019 “as soon as it was safe to do so.” After Cal Fire concluded its probe and turned its findings over to Sonoma County, Ravitch said, the office’s investigators interviewed dozens of witnesses, issued search warrants and obtained hundreds of thousands of pages of documents for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the fire started, PG&E made a preliminary report, noting that Cal Fire crews had spotted damage on a transmission tower near the fire’s suspected point of origin. In the following days, Bill Johnson, PG&E’s CEO at the time, said repeatedly that the tower where the problem occurred had been inspected four times in the two years before the fire, and that several maintenance issues found on equipment there had been addressed.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11841815,news_11824596,news_11829285\"]Last year, PG&E declined to comment on Cal Fire’s investigation, saying it didn’t have access to the agency’s report or to the evidence it was based on. But in February, the utility acknowledged — apparently \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/pge-executive-power-line-sparked-kincade-fire/103-370b4bb8-a518-4725-822a-4103c7429295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for the first time\u003c/a> in public — that it had caused the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand at a high level that our equipment was responsible for that fire,” Aaron Johnson, the company’s vice president for wildfire safety, said during a California Public Utilities Commission workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, PG&E issued a statement saying it was “saddened by the property losses and personal impacts” due to the fire. The utility went on to say it will accept Cal Fire’s conclusions about the fire’s cause. But it disputed the notion the fire’s start involved any criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not believe there was any crime here,” the company said. “We remain committed to making it right for all those impacted and working to further reduce wildfire risk on our system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s criminal complaint is just the latest legal difficulty for a company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841815/pge-under-investigation-in-connection-with-deadly-shasta-county-wildfire\">whose aging equipment has been shown to be\u003c/a> the cause of numerous massive fires that have killed more than 110 Californians since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wildfire calamities include the North Bay fires of October 2017, in which 22 people died in blazes that Cal Fire found to involve PG&E equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also pleaded guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">84 counts of involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> for the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed about 14,000 homes in and around the Butte County town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those disasters set the stage for the company’s filing for bankruptcy protection in 2019 — a year that passed without anyone dying in a PG&E-related fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last September, a tree fell on a PG&E power line southwest of Redding, in Shasta County, sparking a fire that killed four residents of a rural community. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco who has spent the last 17 months trying to force PG&E to improve its safety practices in the wake of a string of deadly wildfires is now ordering the company to take a series of steps designed to head off future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6880045/Alsup-Pge-200429.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an order\u003c/a> that included a withering critique of the company's safety performance, U.S. District Judge William Alsup told the utility it must now undertake dramatically expanded inspections of both its lower-voltage distribution lines and its network of high-voltage transmission lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11802477,news_11796515,news_11767619\" label=\"PG&E on Probation\"]\u003cbr>\nAlsup oversees PG&E's criminal probation for federal pipeline safety violations arising from the 2010 San Bruno disaster. 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He recounted the company's failure to detect the damaged transmission tower hardware that led to the Camp Fire and several other instances in which inspectors didn't see or neglected to take note of equipment that was later found to be badly worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge expressed frustration that PG&E reported three separate inspections of a Sonoma County transmission tower where a cable broke during a windstorm last October and apparently started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like a broken record, PG&E routinely excuses itself by insisting that all towers had been inspected and any noted faults were addressed, at least according to its paperwork,\" Alsup wrote. \"But these transmission tower inspections failed to spot dangerous conditions. Was this because the inspections were poorly designed or was it because they were poorly executed? Had someone falsified inspection reports? It is hard to get a straight answer from PG&E. The offender is masterful at falling back on the inspection reports and saying, 'See, Judge, we had that very line inspected and all was well,' or, 'We fixed whatever they found wrong. We did our part.' The reports, however, are a mere courtroom prop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To deal with those shortcomings and hold both individual inspectors and the company responsible for their findings, Alsup ordered three new conditions of probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has to catalog the age and condition of every piece of hardware on every transmission tower and line in its system. The company must also devise a new system to assess the condition of towers, lines and associated equipment and will be required to take a video of every inspection. 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"content": "\u003cp>Kent Michitsch seemed to be running out of traditional options to insure the home he’s lived in for more than 30 years northeast of San Diego as California’s massive property insurance market reels from three consecutive years of destructive wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michitsch, 57, has received three non-renewal notices in three years and says he feared getting a fourth one when his homeowners’ policy comes up for renewal the middle of next year if it wasn’t for California lawmaker’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789809/state-bans-insurers-from-dropping-homeowner-policies-in-areas-hit-by-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent intervention\u003c/a> in the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s constant worry and frustration. You know you’re covered now, but I might have to look for a new policy next year yet again.” Michitsch says he’s never made a claim on his insurance and never had fire damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of homeowners like Michitsch have lost their insurance policies in the last few years as insurers pull out of areas that are at risk of fire damage or stop insuring homes altogether. They’ve been forced to scramble to find coverage from regular insurance providers or to turn as a last resort to a government sanctioned plan that at the moment only provides fire coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Kent Michitsch']‘It’s constant worry and frustration. You know you’re covered now, but I might have to look for a new policy next year yet again.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Farm, the largest in the state, and Allstate and other insurers declined to renew roughly 350,000 policies in areas at high risk for wildfires since 2015 the California Department of Insurance said back in August, and the department has gotten “record numbers” of requests this year from insurers to increase the rates they charge property owners. The data also shows 33,000 policies were not renewed by insurers in zip codes affected by the major wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the insurance industry says the California property insurance market is resilient, state lawmakers and officials have had to scramble to keep the market from grinding to a halt from the unexpected additional risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California legislature passed a law earlier this year giving the Department of Insurance emergency powers to keep policies in effect for those in fire-prone areas. This month California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara put a one-year moratorium on non-renewals, in hopes that lawmakers, insurance companies and other stakeholders can reach a more substantial solution for the roughly 1 million homeowners in zip codes adjacent to previous wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='wildfires' label='More Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This wildfire insurance crisis has been years in the making, but it is an emergency we must deal with now if we are going to keep the California dream of home ownership from becoming the California nightmare, as an increasing number of homeowners struggle to find coverage,” Lara said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires of 2017 and 2018 caused a combined $25.3 billion in damages according to the California Department of Insurance. That’s exponentially higher than the previous wildfires in 2015 and 2008, which caused $1.1 billion and $719 million in damages, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance industry has yet to release an estimate of damages from this year’s wildfire season, but the costs are expected to be high. The most significant wildfire this year was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kincade fire\u003c/a>, which is started October 23 and has burned 78,000 acres in Sonoma county. It destroyed 374 buildings and damaged another 60, according to the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wildfires in California will likely make it more difficult for California homeowners to buy insurance,” Stu Ryland, senior vice president of the Pacific Region at Sedgwick, an insurance claims management company. “Premiums are likely to go up, particularly in areas that are prone to wildfires and in some cases, it may be difficult for consumers to find an insurer willing to write their insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some insurers are pulling out and others are reconsidering how they price property insurance, it is still available in one form or another to every homeowner, according to the Insurance Information Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those not insurable by regular insurance providers are having to turn to what’s known as the California FAIR Plan, which is a government-sanctioned association of insurers who pool together to cover the highest risk properties. FAIR Plan insurance currently only covers $1.5 million in damages, although Lara has ordered that starting in April 2020 it will cover $3 million in damages. Currently the FAIR Plan only covers fire, not other forms of risk, but California regulators have announced that FAIR Plan insurers can start doing comprehensive coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfpnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California FAIR Plan Association\u003c/a> sued to block those changes, arguing Lara’s order is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karl Susman, owner of Susman Insurance Agency in Los Angeles, says the average annual premium on a homeowner policy plus FAIR to cover fire now costs around $2,500 a year, which is three times higher than it was three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These wildfires are not sustainable for these companies. They aren’t going to go bankrupt but they are just going to stop writing policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Karl Susman']‘I haven’t seen anything like this in the 28 years I’ve been doing this.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susman said he worries that without a longer-term solution the California insurance market will repeat the experience after the 1994 California Northridge earthquake, which caused many insurance carriers to stop offering earthquake insurance. He’s already seen insurance companies limiting their risk to certain zip codes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t seen anything like this in the 28 years I’ve been doing this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, those who still do have insurance have been able to start rebuilding their lives after the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie and Dan London of Santa Rosa lost their home in the massive and fatal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tubbs fire of 2017\u003c/a>. They worked quickly after the fire, filing a claim and reaching out to their contractor that same day. But it took them two years to rebuild and move back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many who tried to rebuild after the fire, they ran into obstacles — higher costs for labor and materials and ongoing talks with their insurer. All the same, Dan London feels his insurance company has done a fair job. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lori Kennedy thought she was going to live a comfortable retirement in a modest home in wooded Magalia, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she woke up a year ago to a phone call and hurried evacuation orders, and in a matter of hours nearly every trace of her life was incinerated: the Christmas ornaments her children made when they were little, the sculptures and artwork she spent her career creating, the home where she hosted family gatherings for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just that you’ve lost things,” Kennedy said. “You’ve lost validation of your existence for all those years. You can replace furniture. But you can’t replace baby books, wedding albums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='camp-fire' label='More Coverage.']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy is one of thousands of survivors of the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history, which was sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric equipment in November 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710884/list-of-those-who-died-in-butte-county-paradise-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed 85 people\u003c/a> and nearly incinerated the town of Paradise. More than 70,000 people have filed claims against the utility over various wildfires in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys believe as many as 100,000 people are eligible to receive payments for damages they suffered during the devastating wildfires of recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wildfire victims of previous years must wait for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PG&E to exit bankruptcy\u003c/a> to get any payout from the utility. And as the 2019 wildfire season takes another toll on Northern California and the utility’s equipment is blamed for new fires, the number of homes destroyed ticks up. More victims are filing claims against the company, potentially reducing the payout all victims and creditors could receive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more victims there are, the smaller the slices of the pie. That’s just the way it’s going to be,” said Hugh Ray, a bankruptcy attorney and principal at the law firm McKool Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery has been particularly hard for Camp Fire survivors because many in their safety nets also lost everything. Christina Taft, who lived with her mother before the fire, says she’s relying on charity after the fire killed her mother and destroyed the home they shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still trying to get a job and I still have stuff in storage and I’m not economically stable,” Taft said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its bankruptcy plan, PG&E has pledged to pay $8.4 billion to wildfire victims and an additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774069/pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$11 billion to compensate insurance companies for their payouts\u003c/a>. A competing proposal made by bondholders seeking to gain control of PG&E would pay wildfire victims $13.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Hugh Ray, bankruptcy attorney']‘The more victims there are, the smaller the slices of the pie. That’s just the way it’s going to be.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much the total liabilities for wildfire victims will amount to, and the matter is being litigated. Attorneys for wildfire victims hope for a full recovery, but some bankruptcy experts are skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not going to get anything like a complete recovery,” Ray said. “It won’t be enough to solve all the problems. At this point I don’t see the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters, debts that PG&E incurred after the company filed for bankruptcy protection are supposed to be treated as a higher priority than those incurred before bankruptcy, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without bankruptcy law that enables companies to continue operating after filing, no one would be willing to lend to the company or provide equipment, for fear of not getting paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means victims of blazes —\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> such as the one last month in Sonoma County\u003c/a> that destroyed 374 structures and forced 200,000 people to evacuate — are supposed to be paid before victims of earlier fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to me,” Taft said. “You’d think it would be based on what’s oldest, and obviously the Paradise fire was the most destructive. It’s very unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for wildfire victims — many who represent victims of blazes before and after the bankruptcy filing — are trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald Singleton, who represents approximately 7,000 wildfire victims, says claims from last month’s fire should be passed through to the reorganized company and handled by its insurance, as if they’re not part of the bankruptcy. That would allow those victims time to file claims without delaying PG&E’s bankruptcy, which faces a June 2020 legislative deadline to access a $21 billion state wildfire fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to be fair to (those) victims, because they would have to file within a very short period of time,” Singleton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='pge' label='PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kennedy’s case, she and her husband grabbed a few photos and their cats as they fled. They spent the next 110 days moving from one hotel to the next as they figured out how to rebuild. An insurance settlement covered the value of her home and its contents, but it wasn’t enough to buy again in the area, where home prices were skyrocketing. She and her husband eventually bought a fixer-upper that needed extensive work while her husband undergoes dialysis treatments three times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel cheated, of course,” Kennedy said. “Everyone considered their loss as a great loss, and that it shouldn’t be diminished, but I also know reality. You can kick and scream all you want, but it’s just going to happen the way it’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire victims didn’t have insurance or received insurance payouts that were too small to afford anything in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who have ongoing mental or emotional issues, and they can’t get comfortable anywhere, because they fear getting burned out again,” said Mike Danko, another attorney who represents wildfire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued fires also threatened the bankruptcy plans. Each of the competing proposals gives financial backers an out under certain conditions. For example, if PG&E-sparked fires burn down 500 houses this year, the backers of those plans can withdraw, Danko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it’s too soon to discuss liability for the Sonoma County fire, for which a cause has not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything they thought that they had worked out is now being challenged, because the numbers are now being stressed,” said Risa Wolf-Smith, a bankruptcy attorney and partner at Holland & Hart, which represents an entity from which PG&E promised to buy renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An eventual payout from PG&E still wouldn’t come close to replacing everything Kennedy lost. One of her animals didn’t survive boarding. Her best friend, who survived the fire, later died after a heart attack. 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They have failed us too many times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executives from all three companies faced questions as they detailed the work they’ve done to try and reduce the risk of wildfires caused by their equipment — but the smallest provider, SDG&E, which has made the most significant strides toward guarding its system against fires, was the clear favorite of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, it was clear that PG&E officials were in the hot seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all three utilities have sparked wildfires with their equipment, PG&E has caused the most deadly and destructive fires in state history in recent years, including the Camp Fire, which decimated the Butte County town of Paradise just over a year ago. The company opted in January to file for bankruptcy protection as it grappled with tens of billions of dollars in liability costs related to those blazes. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you're worried that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/search?q=fires&site=news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires\u003c/a> might have created shortages of Northern California's 2019 cabernet sauvignon, or even just imparted it with an undesirable smoky flavor, you can relax. The wine is just fine. For now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a late October blaze that raged through one of the world's best-known wine-growing regions, forcing evacuations in two mid-sized towns, wine production in Sonoma County escaped largely unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limerick Lane Wines, for instance, avoided serious damage despite flames that licked at two sides of its property in the Russian River Valley just south of Healdsburg. Limerick's grapes were already harvested, crushed and stored in tanks and barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation='Jake Bilbro, Limerick Lane Wines']'Our buildings are all surrounded by vineyards, and vineyards are excellent fire breaks.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winery's sealed cellar prevented smoke damage to its inventory, said owner Jake Bilbro, although its tasting room now has an acrid smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have to thank the people who planted our vineyards and built our house 100 years ago,\" Bilbro said. \"Our buildings are all surrounded by vineyards, and vineyards are excellent fire breaks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, vintners estimate that the region lost only about five percent of its harvest to fire and smoke — not a perfect outcome, but better than in 2017, when wildfire struck with only about 90% of the harvest in. The remaining grapes weren't all lost, but that year's vintages were rumored to have a \"smoky\" taste, and winemakers were taking no chances this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Sonoma, a sprawling county larger than Rhode Island located about an hour north of San Francisco, say they're hoping that fires don't become the new normal. But with the smell of smoke lingers in the air and the charred hills serving as a reminder, they're also making plans in case they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire season isn't over yet, of course, and the now largely contained \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade fire\u003c/a> did incinerate the historic Soda Rock Winery, although most vineyards sustained no damage and lost no production. But the region has suffered a precipitous drop in fall tourism, which could undermine the economic health of its wineries and hospitality industry alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Munselle lost about half of the young vines he had planted just two months before when a fire raged through the upper part of his ranch at Munselle Vineyards in Alexander Valley, between Healdsburg and Geyserville. The drainage below the plants was also damaged, and will probably cost $150,000 to repair, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='fire' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could have been much worse if mature vineyards were more appealing to fire. Water-rich vines and grapes planted in plowed rows don't offer them much fuel, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My family has lived on this property for 130 years,\" Munselle said. \"We've never seen it burn from the tops of mountains to the valley floor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is making summers warmer and drying out more forest brush, creating greater fuel reservoirs for wildfire, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of earth system science at Stanford. The late-autumn rains that typically end fire season have started later in recent years, he said, although it's not yet clear whether that's also climate-related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oddly enough, those same effects can help protect the grape crop by accelerating ripening of the fruit and reducing the chance that unexpectedly early rains might damage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wine researchers have suggested vineyards might need to adjust harvest times, evaluate what they plant, even possibly move to cooler areas over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few grape growers are dramatically changing their practices yet. No one is talking about closing up shop or moving elsewhere. But winemakers are tinkering anyway — and everyone is buying backup generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clay Mauritson of Mauritson Wines said he and his family are experimenting with different pruning methods to increase shade on the plants, although they don't see any need to shift to new growing areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to be too dramatic or reactionary,\" he said. \"We are going to take baby steps to make sure we're prepared for what comes down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation='Clay Mauritson, Mauritson Wines']'We are going to take baby steps to make sure we're prepared for what comes down.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourism, which is usually booming amid the fall colors and mild temperatures, has taken a serious blow. Evacuations of nearby Healdsburg and Windsor, along with planned blackouts by the region's utility, PG&E — plus, the widespread misperception that the vineyards themselves burned — led to a rash of cancellations for hotel, restaurant and tasting-room reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Bartolomei, owner of the upscale boutique hotel Farmhouse Inn in Forestville, said he would normally be sold out this time of year. But on Nov. 1, his inn had only two of 25 rooms filled. He's trying to get the message out that the county businesses are intact and open for visitors. But, he said, \"it's going to be a slow, gradual education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitor numbers had just started recovering from a similar drop-off following the 2017 fires, said Sonoma County Tourism president Clauda Vecchio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the tourism bureau now plans to promote wine country as a spring destination rather than fall, and is devoting the bulk of its $750,000 advertising budget to that end. 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"content": "\u003cp>Cal Fire’s incident command center in Santa Rosa, close to where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> has been burning for the last two weeks, looks a lot like a hedge maze of trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jonathan Cox, Cal Fire PIO\"]‘What I always like to say — though I’m biased — is getting people informed is just as important as putting the fire out.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling temporary facility, set up at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, is designed to be a one-stop shop for thousands of firefighters from across the country to get whatever they need, from food and beds to doctors and mental health professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center sprung up after the Kincade Fire erupted near Geyserville on the evening of Oct. 23. The massive blaze, which is now 88% contained, prompted the evacuation of nearly 200,000 Sonoma County residents, charring almost 78,000 acres and destroying scores of homes and other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where experts from across the state have come to track the fire’s progress and provide crucial updates to firefighters, local officials and residents awaiting evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785130 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_4314-e1573083407279-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Cox prepares for a press conference on the Kincade Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_4314-e1573083407279-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_4314-e1573083407279-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_4314-e1573083407279-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_4314-e1573083407279-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_4314-e1573083407279.jpg 1828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire public information officer Jonathan Cox prepares for one of many press conferences he’s held since the start of the Kincade Fire. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What I always like to say — though I’m biased — is getting people informed is just as important as putting the fire out,” said Jonathan Cox, Cal Fire’s public information officer. “If you lose public trust, or public sentiment, then you really become ineffective at your job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox, who used to be a firefighter himself, has been with Cal Fire for 19 years. His passion for communicating with the public, he said, stems from his experience struggling with dyslexia during childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"kincade-fire\"]“I didn’t comprehend a lot of complex things,” he said. “So I like to summarize and kind of synthesize complexities into understandable information. And that’s something that’s definitely a result of my upbringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information is a big part of what Cal Fire operations are based on, both in terms of conveying to the public what they need to know to keep themselves safe, and gathering data from the damage to determine what caused a structure to burn down and how to prevent that from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Masterson leads one of the agency’s damage inspection teams, whose job is to survey houses impacted by the fire to determine what burned, what didn’t and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at what type of roof it’s got on it, types of siding, whether there are single-pane windows or dual-pane, if the vents are opened or closed, screened or unscreened,” explained Masterson. “So then we can see what protects our folks from losing their homes. What’s working, what’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That data is then used by state officials to develop new building codes that can more effectively prevent fires, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785129 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_9847-e1573083991769-800x468.jpg\" alt='Boards covered in so-called \"t-cards\" organize where firefighting resources will be allocated each day.' width=\"800\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_9847-e1573083991769-800x468.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_9847-e1573083991769-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_9847-e1573083991769-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_9847-e1573083991769-1200x703.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_9847-e1573083991769.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boards covered in “t-cards,” designating where firefighting resources will be allocated each day.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Extensive incident response operations like this are time-intensive, and often get held up by more urgent firefighting operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fires that we’ve seen over the last few years have been fires that do the majority of their damage in the first eight to 12 hours,” said Cox. “It’s very hard to have this kind of system in place in 12 hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>, which leveled much of the nearby Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literally, until that wind stopped the following day, we were pulling people out of homes and neighborhoods, just trying to save lives,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike other recent major blazes, the Kincade Fire inflicted the brunt of its damage over a prolonged period, allowing more time to set operations early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785131 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2458-2-e1573083673566-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate firefighters file into the Cal Fire command center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2458-2-e1573083673566-800x479.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2458-2-e1573083673566-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2458-2-e1573083673566-1020x610.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2458-2-e1573083673566-1200x718.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_2458-2-e1573083673566.jpg 1780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters file into Cal Fire’s command center near the Kincade Fire. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time around, Cox said, officials had positioned firefighting resources in red flag areas well in advance of the blaze, leaving them much \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783696/how-the-2017-north-bay-fires-prepared-sonoma-county-for-the-kincaid-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">better prepared to quickly attack it\u003c/a>. 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