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As part of their campaign, they've plowed money into social media and launched websites touting their credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've held a steady stream of in-person and virtual town hall meetings, flying in from across California and around the country to lure in potential clients with everything from free food to face time with famed anti-PG&E activist Erin Brockovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some attorneys have already begun the process of setting up shop in the small mountain towns of Quincy and Susanville, where many evacuees are stuck in limbo, staying in motels or with friends as they try to figure out what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 932px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887772 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sit at an outdoor table amid Styrofoam containers and soda cans.\" width=\"932\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n.jpg 932w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Sullens (right) and her husband, Bob, who recently lost their home of 51 years when the Dixie Fire destroyed the town of Greenville, at a barbecue for evacuees in Quincy, sponsored by the law firm Potter Handy, on Aug. 19, 2021. \"We want to hear what's being done and how they can help if you have insurance and you don't get very much,\" said Sullens. \u003ccite>(Paul Boger/KUNR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These lawyers claim they have experience getting massive settlements out of PG&E for survivors of earlier fires. But many of those families, who turned to these same lawyers after losing their homes and loved ones, still sleep in cars and trailers and now say they see a replay of the broken promises they say have traumatized them a second time. They offer a warning for today's fire victims: Buyer beware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a free-for-fall,\" said Victoria Gann, who lived in Paradise for 20 years before the Camp Fire destroyed the Sierra Nevada town in 2018. Three years later, she still lives in a trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gann is among the 70,000 survivors of wildfires sparked by PG&E equipment between 2015 and 2018 who were promised $13.5 billion in a settlement with the utility. Nearly two years later, most of those fire survivors have yet to receive a dime. \"It's only a disaster for the people it happened to. For everyone else, it seems to be a cash windfall,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rush of attorneys into rural Northern California prompted Plumas County District Attorney David Hollister to \u003ca href=\"https://www.plumasnews.com/district-attorney-hollister-provides-information-regarding-legal-assistance-in-the-wake-of-the-dixie-fire/\">publish and distribute pamphlets\u003c/a> urging fire victims not to rush as they hire lawyers and contractors. It includes ethics guidance from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last thing we want is for people to be revictimized,\" Hollister told KQED and NPR's California Newsroom. \"This is a big life-changing decision. So take a step back and make a good choice that's going to protect you going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887782 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"One worker is on top of a crane next to a power line.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-1536x1038.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-2048x1384.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-1920x1298.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several days after the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, PG&E crews repair power lines destroyed by flames on Nov. 21, 2018. As of Sept. 2021, a large number of the 70,000 survivors of PG&E-caused fires between 2015 and 2018 had not yet received any money from the Fire Victim Trust, set up in 2020 to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lawyers haven’t delivered, survivors say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The push by lawyers to sign up new survivors as clients has become something of a grim fire season tradition in California. Among the most prolific lawyers is Mikal Watts, a trial lawyer from Corpus Christi, Texas, who once told a community forum of fire victims in Sonoma County wine country that he \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-victims-lawyer-scrutinized-over-Wall-15241511.php\">wanted to “be your daddy.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mikal Watts, Trial lawyer to wildfire survivors\"]'The way you level out the playing field is you assemble 16,000 people.'[/pullquote]On Wednesday, Watts could be found holding court at the Quincy Public Library, addressing those fleeing the Dixie Fire in person, with Brockovich and more fire victims joining on Zoom. \"They have a ton of lawyers,\" Watts said of PG&E, telling his audience the company was prepared to \"crush you like a bug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way you level out the playing field is you assemble 16,000 people,\" said Watts, who represented 16,000 survivors of PG&E fires during the company's recent bankruptcy. \"Now all of a sudden, you've got their attention and they're quaking in their boots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's rising concern among survivors of past fires who say these lawyers do not deliver what they promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2019, Watts, along with other attorneys currently recruiting Dixie Fire survivors as clients, announced a settlement with PG&E that promised $13.5 billion in compensation for approximately 70,000 fire victims of the Camp Fire and other fires sparked by the company's equipment between 2015 and 2018. But payments have been slow to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11884610\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-1020x574.jpg\"]In May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees\">KQED and NPR's California Newsroom revealed\u003c/a> that in its first year of operation, the PG&E Fire Victim Trust spent more than $50 million on overhead, with the trustee, retired California Appeals Court Justice John Trotter, charging $1,500 an hour (he now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884610/will-pges-fire-victims-ever-be-made-whole-never-says-trustee-overseeing-compensation\">claims to make $125,000 a month\u003c/a>). Since then, payments have sped up — with the trust saying it's put approximately $740 million in the hands of fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because half of the settlement came in the form of PG&E stock rather than cash, Trotter said it's unlikely that fire survivors will get the amount that was promised. With the utility implicated in starting new fires every year, its stock price has languished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED and NPR's California Newsroom asked Trotter in August when fire victims would be made whole, he said \"they never will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to deal with the trust's stock component is \"unbearable,\" he told us. When pressed, Trotter also said that in his decades as a trustee, he had never seen a victims’ settlement that included stock in the company that had harmed them.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A “horrible” fire settlement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his Sept. 1 letter to fire victims who were promised money in the 2019 settlement, Trotter \u003ca href=\"https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Letter_from_the_Trustee_(9-1-21).pdf\">made an oblique reference to Watts\u003c/a>, saying some lawyers \"eager to have their clients vote to approve PG&E's emergence from bankruptcy, set unrealistic timelines for payments to be made after the Trust's creation,\" before quoting a description of Watts from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-wildfire-victims-still-unpaid-as-new-california-fires-weigh-on-companys-stock-11628674201\">recent article in The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11879943\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Powell-Camp-Fire-1020x698.jpg\"]In his letter, Trotter said the trust was currently worth \"approximately $2.5 billion less than promised.\" (PG&E is set to fund the trust with a final $700 million cash installment after this fire season.) So far, the trust hasn't sold any of its 478 million shares, which comprise a quarter of all PG&E stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts declined to be interviewed for this story. In an email to KQED and NPR's California Newsroom, he did not address the discrepancy directly but said Trotter was \"an honorable man in whom I have the utmost respect and confidence.\" The PG&E bankruptcy settlement \"was the second-largest tort settlement in American history at that time,\" he added, \"one I am very proud to have worked [on] with fine lawyers across California to achieve on behalf of all our clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts continues to boast of the scale of relief he said he brokered for fire survivors. A website from his group offering legal services declares that he \"led the negotiations with PG&E to raise the settlement negotiation from $8.4 billion to $13.5 billion, the largest settlement in bankruptcy history,\" though the trust has never been worth that much in the year since PG&E funded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also declined to be interviewed and sent a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We empathize with the ongoing hardships many victims face, and remain steadfast in our commitment to make it safe for our customers and communities,\" the statement read. “To deliver on this commitment, we are hardening our system, piloting new technologies, and taking other aggressive action to increase system safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 860px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887779 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1.jpg\" alt='A woman, yelling, holds up two big poster signs, one reading, \"Disaster Capitalism.\"' width=\"860\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1.jpg 860w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About a hundred survivors of the Camp Fire attended a rally in Paradise on May 22, 2021, to protest runaway overhead expenses incurred by the PG&E Fire Victim Trust. Angela Casler, left, lost her father-in-law shortly after the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Geoff Reed, a survivor of the 2018 Camp Fire, didn't mince words when asked about the deal that Watts helped craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The plan is horrible,\" he said. Reed and his two daughters, who were 4 and 3 at the time of the fire, have lived in a cramped apartment in Redding since they lost everything. His older girl has nightmares from witnessing dead bodies during their escape from Paradise as the fire burned all around them. His younger daughter constantly worries that another blaze will come for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed said that, fresh off the experience of fleeing the fire, he signed up with Watts's group after attending a town hall meeting featuring Brockovich, who gained fame for exposing PG&E's water contamination cover-up in Hinkley, a desert town in San Bernardino County. Reed later learned that Brockovich was acting as a paid non-attorney spokesperson for the legal group headed up by Watts along with Doug Boxer, the son of former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They hired Brockovich as a media mercenary and everybody fawns over her and flocks to her. I did,\" Reed said. After he signed up, Reed says Brockovich stopped returning his calls. Jarred by the experience, he switched to a different legal group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Geoff Reed, Survivor of the 2018 Camp Fire\"]'I thought we settled for $13.5 billion. Why didn't PG&E put $13.5 billion in it?'[/pullquote]When KQED interviewed Brockovich last year, she responded to allegations that she has been unresponsive: “I travel a lot. There could be moments where I’m backlogged or I didn’t get back to somebody. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I’m perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fire survivors voted on their settlement last year, Brockovich \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Erin-Brockovich-Why-fire-victims-should-accept-15173053.php\">penned an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> urging them to vote in support of the settlement, and was quoted in two PG&E press releases touting the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed called it “a legal con job. I know the outcome, as do thousands of us.\" Reed said he'd received an initial $6,667 from the trust but was expecting far more: \"I thought we settled for $13.5 billion. Why didn't PG&E put $13.5 billion in it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Trotter, PG&E funded the Fire Victim Trust when shares were worth $9. That's well below the $14.13 implied price they paid per share, a value derived by dividing the $6.75 billion in stock they were promised by the 478 million shares that PG&E actually gave them in the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lawyers backed by Wall Street\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As word of Watts and Boxer's forum at the Quincy library leaked out on social media, a member of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/573936233419008/posts/1017406632405297/\">Facebook group for 2015-2018 fire survivors\u003c/a> posted a screenshot with the caption \"Ka-Ching,\" drawing dozens of comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sharks are circling again,\" commented Stephen Muser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No thx. We're 3 years of waiting ourselves with the Campfire,\" wrote Patricia Wenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some even suggested that past fire survivors attend the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of us Camp Fire folks should join and ask questions about our claims—-,\" commented Eva Shepherd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another commenter referenced the revelation last year that Watts had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813173/attorney-for-pge-fire-victims-funded-by-wall-street-firms-hes-negotiating-against\">accepted litigation funding from some Wall Street hedge funds\u003c/a> negotiating against the interests of fire survivors, including his own clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED was first to report on those ties, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814494/wall-street-ties-of-lawyer-for-pge-fire-victims-have-some-survivors-querying-settlement-vote\">some fire victims and ethics experts said it raised red flags\u003c/a>, adding that Watts should have disclosed them to his clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Stories' tag='camp-fire']At a town hall meeting last year, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/TEwCjhG53C8?t=6545\">this reporter asked Watts\u003c/a> if he had accepted funding from the hedge fund Centerbridge Partners. He indicated that he had not. But when KQED neared publication on a story about it, Watts changed course, admitting to accepting the litigation funding from Centerbridge and others, and ultimately submitting a written disclosure to clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his email to KQED and NPR's California Newsroom for this story, Watts said there was no conflict of interest because he does not have a single line of financing. \"I have access to funds from multiple sources relating to different kinds of cases I litigate across the country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that that particular line of credit \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-pg-e-fire-victims-weigh-settlement-lawyers-role-attracts-scrutiny-11589198405\">was worth $100 million\u003c/a>, but toward the end of Wednesday's recruitment event, Watts quoted a much larger amount, which he later told KQED stems from multiple lines of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mentioned I've got access to a lot of money that I borrow from New York banks — $400 million of access so I can spend whatever it takes,\" Watts told the audience. \"They made up this cockamamie deal about Mikal's loans are backed up by people that own part of PG&E and this and that. It's all a bunch of nonsense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the audience of Dixie Fire survivors that he had refinanced the loans \"to clean it all up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll come after me but don't worry about it. It's all white noise,\" Watts concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital flyers for the event included a photo of Brockovich, who appeared on the Zoom but never spoke and dropped off the livestream midway through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887799\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 932px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887799 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n.jpg\" alt=\"People sit at a group of picnic tables on a green lawn beneath tall trees.\" width=\"932\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n.jpg 932w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last month, attorney Bret Cook organized a barbecue in Quincy for those displaced by the Dixie Fire. Not far from the food, attorneys placed a stack of legal contracts for potential wildfire victims to review. \u003ccite>(Paul Boger/KUNR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Free food brings in wildfire survivors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Watts is hardly the only attorney working to land recent fire victims as clients. KQED and NPR's California Newsroom counted at least two dozen law firms posting ads and launching websites aimed at survivors of the Dixie Fire. They offer to represent them for damages ranging from property loss, emotional distress and displacement costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Potter Handy, Attorney representing 200 victims of the Camp Fire,\"]'It's frustrating because of the bankruptcy ... the clients in the Camp Fire got shortchanged.'[/pullquote]Last month, one firm organized a barbeque meal of smoked tri-tip and butterhorn rolls. For days, a flyer advertising it made the rounds of social media: \"FREE DINNER,\" it read. In smaller type below, it specified: \"For those displaced due to the Dixie Fire Come Hungry!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As ash fell from the sky, evacuee Sandy Sullens said she was there to learn more about what resources might be available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to hear what's being done and how they can help if you have insurance and you don't get very much,\" said Sullens, who recently lost her home of 51 years when the Dixie Fire destroyed the town of Greenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the same story over and over and over again. PG&E. We're not sure,\" Sullens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was organized by a local attorney, Bret Cook, who is partnering with Potter Handy, a law firm based in San Diego. The firm recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Disability-lawsuits-hit-S-F-Chinatown-and-state-16356130.php\">came under scrutiny\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Chinatown for allegedly filing frivolous lawsuits against small businesses using the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city's district attorney, Chesa Boudin, had floated the possibility of filing charges for criminal extortion against the firm, though no such charges were made in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potter, who represented 200 victims of the Camp Fire, did not return an email seeking comment on his San Francisco litigation. But in an interview in Quincy he admitted to the flaws of the wildfire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frustrating because of the bankruptcy,\" Potter said. \"The clients in the Camp Fire got shortchanged in the bankruptcy process and so that was frustrating, frankly. It's rewarding to help them out but those clients still haven't been fully paid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far from the food, Potter Handy attorneys had placed a stack of legal contracts for potential victims to review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract states the terms: a contingency that would leave the lawyers with 25% of any potential reward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Coverage' tag='2021-wildfires']Cook has been the Sullens's lawyer for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just providing some food for people evacuated from the Dixie Fire. It's a way to give back to the community,\" said Cook, who also lost his home and law office in Greenville. \"It was a way of putting a little smile on their face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they're here to enlist clients, Cook demurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing that, necessarily. People are asking us. And we're certainly not going to say no. As I call around, having an avenue to rebuild brings them a sense of hope,\" Cook said. \"Some are ready to move to that next step and I want to make ourselves available in that case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the correct name of the State Bar of California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Paul Boger of KUNR in Reno, Nevada, contributed reporting from Quincy.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Attorneys in the fast-growing wildfire litigation industry are racing to recruit victims of wildfires like the Camp and Dixie fires, but some past and current clients advise caution.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631228697,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":64,"wordCount":3059},"headData":{"title":"'Sharks Are Circling Again': With Wildfires Come Lawyers, and Previous Survivors Have a Warning | KQED","description":"Attorneys in the fast-growing wildfire litigation industry are racing to recruit victims of wildfires like the Camp and Dixie fires, but some past and current clients advise caution.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"Attorneys in the fast-growing wildfire litigation industry are racing to recruit victims of wildfires like the Camp and Dixie Fire but some past and current clients advise caution.","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"Attorneys in the fast-growing wildfire litigation industry are racing to recruit victims of wildfires like the Camp and Dixie Fire but some past and current clients advise caution.","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Sharks Are Circling Again': With Wildfires Come Lawyers, and Previous Survivors Have a Warning","datePublished":"2021-09-08T19:45:51.000Z","dateModified":"2021-09-09T23:04:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11887723 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11887723","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/08/sharks-are-circling-again-with-wildfires-come-lawyers-and-previous-survivors-have-a-warning/","disqusTitle":"'Sharks Are Circling Again': With Wildfires Come Lawyers, and Previous Survivors Have a Warning","path":"/news/11887723/sharks-are-circling-again-with-wildfires-come-lawyers-and-previous-survivors-have-a-warning","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys in the fast-growing wildfire litigation industry are racing to recruit victims of fires ravaging parts of Northern California, and they're promising to take on a familiar target: PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/industries-and-topics/documents/wildfire/staff-investigations/pge-incident-report-20210713.pdf\">company disclosed\u003c/a> that its equipment \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/industries-and-topics/documents/wildfire/staff-investigations/pge-incident-report-210802-14927.pdf\">may have sparked two fires this year\u003c/a>, including the Dixie Fire, the largest single-origin fire in California history, which to date has engulfed nearly 1,400 square miles, destroying 1,282 structures and forcing thousands to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's like a free-for-fall.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Victoria Gann, Camp Fire survivor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Prominent plaintiffs’ attorneys have swooped in even as the fire burns. As part of their campaign, they've plowed money into social media and launched websites touting their credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've held a steady stream of in-person and virtual town hall meetings, flying in from across California and around the country to lure in potential clients with everything from free food to face time with famed anti-PG&E activist Erin Brockovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some attorneys have already begun the process of setting up shop in the small mountain towns of Quincy and Susanville, where many evacuees are stuck in limbo, staying in motels or with friends as they try to figure out what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 932px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887772 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sit at an outdoor table amid Styrofoam containers and soda cans.\" width=\"932\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n.jpg 932w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/241500197_202297165226628_808619347310281914_n-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Sullens (right) and her husband, Bob, who recently lost their home of 51 years when the Dixie Fire destroyed the town of Greenville, at a barbecue for evacuees in Quincy, sponsored by the law firm Potter Handy, on Aug. 19, 2021. \"We want to hear what's being done and how they can help if you have insurance and you don't get very much,\" said Sullens. \u003ccite>(Paul Boger/KUNR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These lawyers claim they have experience getting massive settlements out of PG&E for survivors of earlier fires. But many of those families, who turned to these same lawyers after losing their homes and loved ones, still sleep in cars and trailers and now say they see a replay of the broken promises they say have traumatized them a second time. They offer a warning for today's fire victims: Buyer beware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a free-for-fall,\" said Victoria Gann, who lived in Paradise for 20 years before the Camp Fire destroyed the Sierra Nevada town in 2018. Three years later, she still lives in a trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gann is among the 70,000 survivors of wildfires sparked by PG&E equipment between 2015 and 2018 who were promised $13.5 billion in a settlement with the utility. Nearly two years later, most of those fire survivors have yet to receive a dime. \"It's only a disaster for the people it happened to. For everyone else, it seems to be a cash windfall,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rush of attorneys into rural Northern California prompted Plumas County District Attorney David Hollister to \u003ca href=\"https://www.plumasnews.com/district-attorney-hollister-provides-information-regarding-legal-assistance-in-the-wake-of-the-dixie-fire/\">publish and distribute pamphlets\u003c/a> urging fire victims not to rush as they hire lawyers and contractors. It includes ethics guidance from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last thing we want is for people to be revictimized,\" Hollister told KQED and NPR's California Newsroom. \"This is a big life-changing decision. So take a step back and make a good choice that's going to protect you going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887782 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"One worker is on top of a crane next to a power line.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-1536x1038.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-2048x1384.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1070764800-1920x1298.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several days after the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, PG&E crews repair power lines destroyed by flames on Nov. 21, 2018. As of Sept. 2021, a large number of the 70,000 survivors of PG&E-caused fires between 2015 and 2018 had not yet received any money from the Fire Victim Trust, set up in 2020 to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lawyers haven’t delivered, survivors say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The push by lawyers to sign up new survivors as clients has become something of a grim fire season tradition in California. Among the most prolific lawyers is Mikal Watts, a trial lawyer from Corpus Christi, Texas, who once told a community forum of fire victims in Sonoma County wine country that he \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-victims-lawyer-scrutinized-over-Wall-15241511.php\">wanted to “be your daddy.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The way you level out the playing field is you assemble 16,000 people.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Mikal Watts, Trial lawyer to wildfire survivors","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Wednesday, Watts could be found holding court at the Quincy Public Library, addressing those fleeing the Dixie Fire in person, with Brockovich and more fire victims joining on Zoom. \"They have a ton of lawyers,\" Watts said of PG&E, telling his audience the company was prepared to \"crush you like a bug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way you level out the playing field is you assemble 16,000 people,\" said Watts, who represented 16,000 survivors of PG&E fires during the company's recent bankruptcy. \"Now all of a sudden, you've got their attention and they're quaking in their boots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's rising concern among survivors of past fires who say these lawyers do not deliver what they promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2019, Watts, along with other attorneys currently recruiting Dixie Fire survivors as clients, announced a settlement with PG&E that promised $13.5 billion in compensation for approximately 70,000 fire victims of the Camp Fire and other fires sparked by the company's equipment between 2015 and 2018. But payments have been slow to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11884610","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees\">KQED and NPR's California Newsroom revealed\u003c/a> that in its first year of operation, the PG&E Fire Victim Trust spent more than $50 million on overhead, with the trustee, retired California Appeals Court Justice John Trotter, charging $1,500 an hour (he now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884610/will-pges-fire-victims-ever-be-made-whole-never-says-trustee-overseeing-compensation\">claims to make $125,000 a month\u003c/a>). Since then, payments have sped up — with the trust saying it's put approximately $740 million in the hands of fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because half of the settlement came in the form of PG&E stock rather than cash, Trotter said it's unlikely that fire survivors will get the amount that was promised. With the utility implicated in starting new fires every year, its stock price has languished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED and NPR's California Newsroom asked Trotter in August when fire victims would be made whole, he said \"they never will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to deal with the trust's stock component is \"unbearable,\" he told us. When pressed, Trotter also said that in his decades as a trustee, he had never seen a victims’ settlement that included stock in the company that had harmed them.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A “horrible” fire settlement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his Sept. 1 letter to fire victims who were promised money in the 2019 settlement, Trotter \u003ca href=\"https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Letter_from_the_Trustee_(9-1-21).pdf\">made an oblique reference to Watts\u003c/a>, saying some lawyers \"eager to have their clients vote to approve PG&E's emergence from bankruptcy, set unrealistic timelines for payments to be made after the Trust's creation,\" before quoting a description of Watts from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-wildfire-victims-still-unpaid-as-new-california-fires-weigh-on-companys-stock-11628674201\">recent article in The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11879943","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Powell-Camp-Fire-1020x698.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In his letter, Trotter said the trust was currently worth \"approximately $2.5 billion less than promised.\" (PG&E is set to fund the trust with a final $700 million cash installment after this fire season.) So far, the trust hasn't sold any of its 478 million shares, which comprise a quarter of all PG&E stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts declined to be interviewed for this story. In an email to KQED and NPR's California Newsroom, he did not address the discrepancy directly but said Trotter was \"an honorable man in whom I have the utmost respect and confidence.\" The PG&E bankruptcy settlement \"was the second-largest tort settlement in American history at that time,\" he added, \"one I am very proud to have worked [on] with fine lawyers across California to achieve on behalf of all our clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts continues to boast of the scale of relief he said he brokered for fire survivors. A website from his group offering legal services declares that he \"led the negotiations with PG&E to raise the settlement negotiation from $8.4 billion to $13.5 billion, the largest settlement in bankruptcy history,\" though the trust has never been worth that much in the year since PG&E funded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also declined to be interviewed and sent a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We empathize with the ongoing hardships many victims face, and remain steadfast in our commitment to make it safe for our customers and communities,\" the statement read. “To deliver on this commitment, we are hardening our system, piloting new technologies, and taking other aggressive action to increase system safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 860px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887779 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1.jpg\" alt='A woman, yelling, holds up two big poster signs, one reading, \"Disaster Capitalism.\"' width=\"860\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1.jpg 860w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Paradise_Rally_2-1020x574-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About a hundred survivors of the Camp Fire attended a rally in Paradise on May 22, 2021, to protest runaway overhead expenses incurred by the PG&E Fire Victim Trust. Angela Casler, left, lost her father-in-law shortly after the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Geoff Reed, a survivor of the 2018 Camp Fire, didn't mince words when asked about the deal that Watts helped craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The plan is horrible,\" he said. Reed and his two daughters, who were 4 and 3 at the time of the fire, have lived in a cramped apartment in Redding since they lost everything. His older girl has nightmares from witnessing dead bodies during their escape from Paradise as the fire burned all around them. His younger daughter constantly worries that another blaze will come for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed said that, fresh off the experience of fleeing the fire, he signed up with Watts's group after attending a town hall meeting featuring Brockovich, who gained fame for exposing PG&E's water contamination cover-up in Hinkley, a desert town in San Bernardino County. Reed later learned that Brockovich was acting as a paid non-attorney spokesperson for the legal group headed up by Watts along with Doug Boxer, the son of former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They hired Brockovich as a media mercenary and everybody fawns over her and flocks to her. I did,\" Reed said. After he signed up, Reed says Brockovich stopped returning his calls. Jarred by the experience, he switched to a different legal group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I thought we settled for $13.5 billion. Why didn't PG&E put $13.5 billion in it?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Geoff Reed, Survivor of the 2018 Camp Fire","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When KQED interviewed Brockovich last year, she responded to allegations that she has been unresponsive: “I travel a lot. There could be moments where I’m backlogged or I didn’t get back to somebody. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I’m perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fire survivors voted on their settlement last year, Brockovich \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Erin-Brockovich-Why-fire-victims-should-accept-15173053.php\">penned an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> urging them to vote in support of the settlement, and was quoted in two PG&E press releases touting the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed called it “a legal con job. I know the outcome, as do thousands of us.\" Reed said he'd received an initial $6,667 from the trust but was expecting far more: \"I thought we settled for $13.5 billion. Why didn't PG&E put $13.5 billion in it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Trotter, PG&E funded the Fire Victim Trust when shares were worth $9. That's well below the $14.13 implied price they paid per share, a value derived by dividing the $6.75 billion in stock they were promised by the 478 million shares that PG&E actually gave them in the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lawyers backed by Wall Street\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As word of Watts and Boxer's forum at the Quincy library leaked out on social media, a member of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/573936233419008/posts/1017406632405297/\">Facebook group for 2015-2018 fire survivors\u003c/a> posted a screenshot with the caption \"Ka-Ching,\" drawing dozens of comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sharks are circling again,\" commented Stephen Muser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No thx. We're 3 years of waiting ourselves with the Campfire,\" wrote Patricia Wenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some even suggested that past fire survivors attend the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of us Camp Fire folks should join and ask questions about our claims—-,\" commented Eva Shepherd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another commenter referenced the revelation last year that Watts had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813173/attorney-for-pge-fire-victims-funded-by-wall-street-firms-hes-negotiating-against\">accepted litigation funding from some Wall Street hedge funds\u003c/a> negotiating against the interests of fire survivors, including his own clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED was first to report on those ties, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814494/wall-street-ties-of-lawyer-for-pge-fire-victims-have-some-survivors-querying-settlement-vote\">some fire victims and ethics experts said it raised red flags\u003c/a>, adding that Watts should have disclosed them to his clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories ","tag":"camp-fire"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At a town hall meeting last year, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/TEwCjhG53C8?t=6545\">this reporter asked Watts\u003c/a> if he had accepted funding from the hedge fund Centerbridge Partners. He indicated that he had not. But when KQED neared publication on a story about it, Watts changed course, admitting to accepting the litigation funding from Centerbridge and others, and ultimately submitting a written disclosure to clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his email to KQED and NPR's California Newsroom for this story, Watts said there was no conflict of interest because he does not have a single line of financing. \"I have access to funds from multiple sources relating to different kinds of cases I litigate across the country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that that particular line of credit \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-pg-e-fire-victims-weigh-settlement-lawyers-role-attracts-scrutiny-11589198405\">was worth $100 million\u003c/a>, but toward the end of Wednesday's recruitment event, Watts quoted a much larger amount, which he later told KQED stems from multiple lines of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mentioned I've got access to a lot of money that I borrow from New York banks — $400 million of access so I can spend whatever it takes,\" Watts told the audience. \"They made up this cockamamie deal about Mikal's loans are backed up by people that own part of PG&E and this and that. It's all a bunch of nonsense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the audience of Dixie Fire survivors that he had refinanced the loans \"to clean it all up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll come after me but don't worry about it. It's all white noise,\" Watts concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital flyers for the event included a photo of Brockovich, who appeared on the Zoom but never spoke and dropped off the livestream midway through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887799\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 932px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887799 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n.jpg\" alt=\"People sit at a group of picnic tables on a green lawn beneath tall trees.\" width=\"932\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n.jpg 932w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/240579172_146869947616740_6151292893213842431_n-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last month, attorney Bret Cook organized a barbecue in Quincy for those displaced by the Dixie Fire. Not far from the food, attorneys placed a stack of legal contracts for potential wildfire victims to review. \u003ccite>(Paul Boger/KUNR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Free food brings in wildfire survivors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Watts is hardly the only attorney working to land recent fire victims as clients. KQED and NPR's California Newsroom counted at least two dozen law firms posting ads and launching websites aimed at survivors of the Dixie Fire. They offer to represent them for damages ranging from property loss, emotional distress and displacement costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's frustrating because of the bankruptcy ... the clients in the Camp Fire got shortchanged.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Potter Handy, Attorney representing 200 victims of the Camp Fire,","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last month, one firm organized a barbeque meal of smoked tri-tip and butterhorn rolls. For days, a flyer advertising it made the rounds of social media: \"FREE DINNER,\" it read. In smaller type below, it specified: \"For those displaced due to the Dixie Fire Come Hungry!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As ash fell from the sky, evacuee Sandy Sullens said she was there to learn more about what resources might be available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to hear what's being done and how they can help if you have insurance and you don't get very much,\" said Sullens, who recently lost her home of 51 years when the Dixie Fire destroyed the town of Greenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the same story over and over and over again. PG&E. We're not sure,\" Sullens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was organized by a local attorney, Bret Cook, who is partnering with Potter Handy, a law firm based in San Diego. The firm recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Disability-lawsuits-hit-S-F-Chinatown-and-state-16356130.php\">came under scrutiny\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Chinatown for allegedly filing frivolous lawsuits against small businesses using the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city's district attorney, Chesa Boudin, had floated the possibility of filing charges for criminal extortion against the firm, though no such charges were made in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potter, who represented 200 victims of the Camp Fire, did not return an email seeking comment on his San Francisco litigation. But in an interview in Quincy he admitted to the flaws of the wildfire deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frustrating because of the bankruptcy,\" Potter said. \"The clients in the Camp Fire got shortchanged in the bankruptcy process and so that was frustrating, frankly. It's rewarding to help them out but those clients still haven't been fully paid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far from the food, Potter Handy attorneys had placed a stack of legal contracts for potential victims to review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract states the terms: a contingency that would leave the lawyers with 25% of any potential reward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Coverage ","tag":"2021-wildfires"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cook has been the Sullens's lawyer for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just providing some food for people evacuated from the Dixie Fire. It's a way to give back to the community,\" said Cook, who also lost his home and law office in Greenville. \"It was a way of putting a little smile on their face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they're here to enlist clients, Cook demurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing that, necessarily. People are asking us. And we're certainly not going to say no. As I call around, having an avenue to rebuild brings them a sense of hope,\" Cook said. \"Some are ready to move to that next step and I want to make ourselves available in that case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the correct name of the State Bar of California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Paul Boger of KUNR in Reno, Nevada, contributed reporting from Quincy.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11887723/sharks-are-circling-again-with-wildfires-come-lawyers-and-previous-survivors-have-a-warning","authors":["11552"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_29842","news_18538","news_21959","news_20341","news_24483","news_29884","news_21810","news_22753","news_140","news_27132","news_26848","news_29686","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11887807","label":"news"},"news_11875863":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11875863","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11875863","score":null,"sort":[1622245398000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-266-mile-walk-youth-climate-activists-march-from-paradise-to-san-francisco","title":"A 266-Mile Walk: Youth Climate Activists March From Paradise to San Francisco","publishDate":1622245398,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Madeline Ruddell, 16, says she has long lived with the effects of climate change as a resident of Sonoma County, where wildfires have ripped across the landscape in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruddell, communications lead for the \u003ca href=\"https://hubs.sunrisemovement.org/sonoma-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma County hub of the Sunrise Movement\u003c/a>, a national youth-led climate activist group, can't remember a fall where she didn't prep an evacuation bag, or take time off of school because of a big fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was eager for action because I'm watching fires consume my town and consume my county,\" she said. \"These fires ... motivate me to work harder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of seven young activists marching 266 miles over 2 1/2 weeks in an effort to pressure California lawmakers to support the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/11/993976948/reaching-back-to-the-new-deal-biden-proposes-a-civilian-climate-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civilian Climate Corps\u003c/a> as part of a Green New Deal. She hopes work done by the corps could help reduce fire risk in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want ambitious progressive climate legislation passed by the end of summer 2021,” she said. “We only have one planet and my generation is gonna have to live on it for the rest of our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/smvmtgenonfire/status/1398350383924211713\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue the $10 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal\u003c/a> could create \u003ca href=\"https://collaborative.evergreenaction.com/policy-hub/building-civilian-climate-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.5 million jobs\u003c/a>, putting people to work restoring wetlands, removing invasive species and addressing the threat of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vianni Ledesma, 27, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sunrisemovementsandiego.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunrise Movement San Diego\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the march is about encouraging policy leaders to not take incremental action.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is always \"in the back of my mind when I'm planning for my future,\" she said. \"If I can eliminate that and eliminate it for everyone younger than me, that'll be a beautiful thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sunrisegenonfire/video/6967427883618831621\" data-video-id=\"6967427883618831621\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@sunrisegenonfire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sunrisegenonfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - sunrisegenonfire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6967427795559467781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound - sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the seven marchers will stop for events in Yuba City, Sacramento, Davis, Napa, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Novato and Mill Valley, before arriving in San Francisco on June 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're planning to meet them at the Golden Gate Bridge, and march across down to Nancy Pelosi’s office,” said Ahlad Reddy with \u003ca href=\"https://sunrisebayarea.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunrise Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to KQED, Joy Lee, spokeswoman for House Speaker Pelosi, called the young marchers \"courageous\" and an \"inspiration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressional Democrats support the goals of the Civilian Climate Corps and look forward to working with the Administration to enact it in the Jobs Plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office has yet to comment on the youth walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahlad, 28, is creating art for when the marchers arrive in the Bay Area. He says his team plans to create posters and a street mural representing what they think a Civilian Climate Corps could look like: jobs, restored ecosystems and healthy people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not asking people to only reduce their individual consumption in order to tackle climate change,” he said. “We're asking the government to invest in people, because that's the only way we're gonna rebuild a better future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follow the youth as they march across California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/smvmtgenonfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@smvmtgenonfire\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram - \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sunrisegenonfire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TikTok - \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sunrisegenonfire?lang=en\">@sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Seven young activists will march for 2 1/2 weeks in an effort to pressure California lawmakers to support the Civilian Climate Corps. 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She hopes work done by the corps could help reduce fire risk in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want ambitious progressive climate legislation passed by the end of summer 2021,” she said. “We only have one planet and my generation is gonna have to live on it for the rest of our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1398350383924211713"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>They argue the $10 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal\u003c/a> could create \u003ca href=\"https://collaborative.evergreenaction.com/policy-hub/building-civilian-climate-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.5 million jobs\u003c/a>, putting people to work restoring wetlands, removing invasive species and addressing the threat of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vianni Ledesma, 27, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sunrisemovementsandiego.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunrise Movement San Diego\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the march is about encouraging policy leaders to not take incremental action.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is always \"in the back of my mind when I'm planning for my future,\" she said. \"If I can eliminate that and eliminate it for everyone younger than me, that'll be a beautiful thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sunrisegenonfire/video/6967427883618831621\" data-video-id=\"6967427883618831621\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@sunrisegenonfire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sunrisegenonfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - sunrisegenonfire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6967427795559467781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound - sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the seven marchers will stop for events in Yuba City, Sacramento, Davis, Napa, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Novato and Mill Valley, before arriving in San Francisco on June 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're planning to meet them at the Golden Gate Bridge, and march across down to Nancy Pelosi’s office,” said Ahlad Reddy with \u003ca href=\"https://sunrisebayarea.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunrise Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to KQED, Joy Lee, spokeswoman for House Speaker Pelosi, called the young marchers \"courageous\" and an \"inspiration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressional Democrats support the goals of the Civilian Climate Corps and look forward to working with the Administration to enact it in the Jobs Plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office has yet to comment on the youth walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahlad, 28, is creating art for when the marchers arrive in the Bay Area. He says his team plans to create posters and a street mural representing what they think a Civilian Climate Corps could look like: jobs, restored ecosystems and healthy people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not asking people to only reduce their individual consumption in order to tackle climate change,” he said. “We're asking the government to invest in people, because that's the only way we're gonna rebuild a better future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follow the youth as they march across California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/smvmtgenonfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@smvmtgenonfire\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram - \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sunrisegenonfire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TikTok - \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@sunrisegenonfire?lang=en\">@sunrisegenonfire\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11875863/a-266-mile-walk-youth-climate-activists-march-from-paradise-to-san-francisco","authors":["11746"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_255","news_22753","news_28701","news_29520"],"featImg":"news_11875864","label":"source_news_11875863"},"news_11875034":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11875034","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11875034","score":null,"sort":[1621899633000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"frustration-and-tears-as-camp-fire-survivors-protest-pge-fire-trust","title":"Frustration and Tears as Camp Fire Survivors Protest PG&E Fire Trust","publishDate":1621899633,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Teri Lindsay said she had no intention of speaking at a fire survivors’ rally that drew about a hundred people to the Skyway in Paradise Saturday. But as her daughter, Erika, stood by her side — tears streaming down the young girl’s face — Lindsay voiced her frustration at her family’s living conditions 2.5 years after the 2018 Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time she sees smoke, she cries. She can’t heal until we can go home,\" Lindsay said of Erika, who was 7-years-old when the 2018 Camp Fire destroyed their house, and thousands of others in Paradise. The fire was caused by equipment belonging to PG&E. They’ve been living in a trailer overlooking a branch of Lake Oroville ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the vast majority of the 70,000 fire victims of PG&E fires caused between 2015 and 2018, Lindsay has not yet received any money from the Fire Victim Trust. The Trust was set up last year to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement between fire survivors and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1904px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1904\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika.jpg 1904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-800x422.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-1536x810.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teri Lindsay with daughter Erika, speaks at a rally in Paradise, Calif. on May 22, 2021. They lost their home in the 2018 Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said she was motivated to join this weekend’s rally after reading a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees\">KQED investigation\u003c/a>, published earlier this month, which showed that the Fire Victim Trust racked up $51 million in overhead costs last year while distributing $7 million to fire victims during that period. The investigation was based on KQED’s analysis of federal bankruptcy court filings, court transcripts and correspondence between the Fire Victim Trust and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, fire victims had received less than 0.1% of the approximately $13.5 billion they were promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that I was healing. Until that report came out, it changed my life and took me back to the day. I did not realize how well they're being paid and we’re living in squalor still,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Teri Lindsay, Camp Fire Survivor\"]'I did not realize how well they're being paid and we’re living in squalor still.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Trotter, the retired California Appeals Court justice who runs the Fire Victim Trust, has declined KQED’s repeated interview requests. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-ViYnWvfo\">YouTube video\u003c/a> released last week, he acknowledged the fire victims' frustration, but also predicted more delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trust didn't create the settlement,\" Trotter said. \"We're still walking uphill on this. We're not near the top yet. We're making progress. We're getting there. When we get to the top and down the other side, it will go much more quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Trust, the pace of payments is picking up, with about $255.4 million distributed as of May 19. But, even then, only 565 of nearly 70,000 eligible families had their claims processed and paid, according to the data. In addition, those families are getting 30% of what they're owed while the Trust collects its own fees in full. Every dollar spent on overhead comes out of the fund for fire victims. One court filing, unearthed by KQED, showed Trotter charged the Fire Victim Trust $1,500 an hour. In the video, he said he had taken a pay cut — to a \"very adequate\" salary of $150,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire gather in Paradise, Calif. on May 22, 2021 to protest runaway overhead expenses by the PG&E Fire Victim Trust. \u003ccite>( Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 30% payment structure is partly a result of the terms of PG&E’s settlement with fire victims. The company has funded the Trust half with cash and half with PG&E stock. The arrangement, which has few precedents, made the fire victims significant shareholders in the utility and has complicated the task of administering the Trust, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='fire-victims-trust']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since KQED’s investigation, members of Congress from both parties have demanded action. In separate emails, Rep. Mike Thompson, a Democrat, and Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873721/cascade-of-outrage-follows-investigation-into-pge-fire-victim-trust-expenses\">both called\u003c/a> for faster payouts. James Gallagher, a state Assemblyman who represents Paradise, says KQED's investigation \"raises a lot of questions and concerns that need answers.\" In an interview on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883492/as-wildfire-survivors-await-settlement-fire-victim-trust-spends-51-million\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> this week, Gallagher said he and his colleagues were preparing a letter calling for more transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire victims are making similar requests. \"Families are still living in cars, travel trailers and FEMA trailers,\" Kirk Trostle, a retired police chief who lost his home in Paradise in 2018, wrote to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20707787-kirk-trostle-letter-to-judge-montali-regarding-fvt-5-12-21-3\">Judge Dennis Montali\u003c/a> on May 12, citing KQED's reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stating fire victims are languishing is an understatement,\" he added. \"I request you speed up the process to a sprint-like manner and direct the [Fire Victim Trust] to provide transparency and accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Saturday’s rally, Camp Fire victim Sasha Poe reiterated those calls, saying survivors have the right to know where all of those administrative dollars are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Trust is set up for fire victims,\" said Poe, who joined the rally along with her husband and children. \"Yet so many months and years down the line, fire victims haven't seen much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A fire survivors’ rally drew about a hundred people to the Skyway in Paradise Saturday. The vast majority of fire victims have not yet received any money from a trust that was set up last year to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1621973568,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":909},"headData":{"title":"Frustration and Tears as Camp Fire Survivors Protest PG&E Fire Trust | KQED","description":"A fire survivors’ rally drew about a hundred people to the Skyway in Paradise Saturday. The vast majority of fire victims have not yet received any money from a trust that was set up last year to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Frustration and Tears as Camp Fire Survivors Protest PG&E Fire Trust","datePublished":"2021-05-24T23:40:33.000Z","dateModified":"2021-05-25T20:12:48.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11875034 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11875034","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/24/frustration-and-tears-as-camp-fire-survivors-protest-pge-fire-trust/","disqusTitle":"Frustration and Tears as Camp Fire Survivors Protest PG&E Fire Trust","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/d2fd0dac-31a4-4ef4-b502-ad32010a7c8b/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11875034/frustration-and-tears-as-camp-fire-survivors-protest-pge-fire-trust","audioDuration":162000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Teri Lindsay said she had no intention of speaking at a fire survivors’ rally that drew about a hundred people to the Skyway in Paradise Saturday. But as her daughter, Erika, stood by her side — tears streaming down the young girl’s face — Lindsay voiced her frustration at her family’s living conditions 2.5 years after the 2018 Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time she sees smoke, she cries. She can’t heal until we can go home,\" Lindsay said of Erika, who was 7-years-old when the 2018 Camp Fire destroyed their house, and thousands of others in Paradise. The fire was caused by equipment belonging to PG&E. They’ve been living in a trailer overlooking a branch of Lake Oroville ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the vast majority of the 70,000 fire victims of PG&E fires caused between 2015 and 2018, Lindsay has not yet received any money from the Fire Victim Trust. The Trust was set up last year to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement between fire survivors and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1904px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1904\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika.jpg 1904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-800x422.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/TeriErika-1536x810.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teri Lindsay with daughter Erika, speaks at a rally in Paradise, Calif. on May 22, 2021. They lost their home in the 2018 Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said she was motivated to join this weekend’s rally after reading a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees\">KQED investigation\u003c/a>, published earlier this month, which showed that the Fire Victim Trust racked up $51 million in overhead costs last year while distributing $7 million to fire victims during that period. The investigation was based on KQED’s analysis of federal bankruptcy court filings, court transcripts and correspondence between the Fire Victim Trust and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, fire victims had received less than 0.1% of the approximately $13.5 billion they were promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that I was healing. Until that report came out, it changed my life and took me back to the day. I did not realize how well they're being paid and we’re living in squalor still,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I did not realize how well they're being paid and we’re living in squalor still.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Teri Lindsay, Camp Fire Survivor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Trotter, the retired California Appeals Court justice who runs the Fire Victim Trust, has declined KQED’s repeated interview requests. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-ViYnWvfo\">YouTube video\u003c/a> released last week, he acknowledged the fire victims' frustration, but also predicted more delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trust didn't create the settlement,\" Trotter said. \"We're still walking uphill on this. We're not near the top yet. We're making progress. We're getting there. When we get to the top and down the other side, it will go much more quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Trust, the pace of payments is picking up, with about $255.4 million distributed as of May 19. But, even then, only 565 of nearly 70,000 eligible families had their claims processed and paid, according to the data. In addition, those families are getting 30% of what they're owed while the Trust collects its own fees in full. Every dollar spent on overhead comes out of the fund for fire victims. One court filing, unearthed by KQED, showed Trotter charged the Fire Victim Trust $1,500 an hour. In the video, he said he had taken a pay cut — to a \"very adequate\" salary of $150,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Paradise_Rally-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire gather in Paradise, Calif. on May 22, 2021 to protest runaway overhead expenses by the PG&E Fire Victim Trust. \u003ccite>( Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 30% payment structure is partly a result of the terms of PG&E’s settlement with fire victims. The company has funded the Trust half with cash and half with PG&E stock. The arrangement, which has few precedents, made the fire victims significant shareholders in the utility and has complicated the task of administering the Trust, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"fire-victims-trust"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since KQED’s investigation, members of Congress from both parties have demanded action. In separate emails, Rep. Mike Thompson, a Democrat, and Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873721/cascade-of-outrage-follows-investigation-into-pge-fire-victim-trust-expenses\">both called\u003c/a> for faster payouts. James Gallagher, a state Assemblyman who represents Paradise, says KQED's investigation \"raises a lot of questions and concerns that need answers.\" In an interview on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883492/as-wildfire-survivors-await-settlement-fire-victim-trust-spends-51-million\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> this week, Gallagher said he and his colleagues were preparing a letter calling for more transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire victims are making similar requests. \"Families are still living in cars, travel trailers and FEMA trailers,\" Kirk Trostle, a retired police chief who lost his home in Paradise in 2018, wrote to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20707787-kirk-trostle-letter-to-judge-montali-regarding-fvt-5-12-21-3\">Judge Dennis Montali\u003c/a> on May 12, citing KQED's reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stating fire victims are languishing is an understatement,\" he added. \"I request you speed up the process to a sprint-like manner and direct the [Fire Victim Trust] to provide transparency and accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Saturday’s rally, Camp Fire victim Sasha Poe reiterated those calls, saying survivors have the right to know where all of those administrative dollars are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Trust is set up for fire victims,\" said Poe, who joined the rally along with her husband and children. \"Yet so many months and years down the line, fire victims haven't seen much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11875034/frustration-and-tears-as-camp-fire-survivors-protest-pge-fire-trust","authors":["11552"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_24483","news_29433","news_22753","news_140","news_27132","news_26848"],"featImg":"news_11875094","label":"news_72"},"news_11872328":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11872328","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11872328","score":null,"sort":[1620288138000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees","title":"Survivors Stuck in Limbo as PG&E Fire Victim Trust Pays Out $50 Million in Fees","publishDate":1620288138,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer Bill Cook lost his home in Paradise during the Camp Fire, the 2018 blaze \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. equipment\u003c/a> that ranks as the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two years later, Cook, 70, and his family are barely scraping by. Like Cook, the vast majority of the 67,000 PG&E fire victims included in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11791785/pge-axes-requirement-for-newsom-to-ok-13-5-billion-settlement-with-wildfire-victims\">December 2019 settlement\u003c/a> with the company have yet to see a dime. That's as lawyers and administrators have been paid millions, with the money coming directly from funds set aside to help survivors like Cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Bill Cook, Camp Fire survivor\"]'They're paying themselves very well... It’s like everything is a black hole and nothing moves, and there’s nothing you can do about it.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation found that while they waited, a special Fire Victim Trust in charge of compensating survivors racked up $51 million in overhead costs last year. During that same period, the Trust disbursed just $7 million to fire victims – less than 0.1% of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/07/785775074/pg-e-announces-13-5-billion-settlement-of-claims-linked-to-california-wildfires\">$13.5 billion promised\u003c/a> – according to an analysis of federal bankruptcy court filings, court transcripts and correspondence between staff of the Fire Victim Trust and the victims themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During its first year of operation, the Trust spent nearly 90% of its funds on overhead, while fire victims waited for help, KQED found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Cook lives 100 miles away from Paradise in Davis, where he shares a three-bedroom rental with his 68-year-old wife, Leslie, their four adult children and three grandchildren. He’s eaten into his savings to pay rent, which costs triple what he paid for his mortgage in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re stuck,\" Cook said. \"You can’t go anywhere. You can’t get anything. You can’t move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-1536x1149.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Cook sits at a table in the three-bedroom rental home in Davis where he now lives with his wife, Leslie, their four adult children including Evan (left) and their three grandchildren. The family used paper dividers in the den to create another bedroom. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Cook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the Fire Victim Trust declined to be interviewed. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20698865-m034140771109-rep-2904080931?responsive=1&title=1\">annual report\u003c/a> filed in federal bankruptcy court last week by its trustee, John Trotter, reported $38.7 million spent on financial professionals, claims administrators, consultants and other operating expenses between July 1 and the end of 2020. Documents reviewed by KQED show the Trust took in an additional $12.7 million in funding provided by PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20698873-m034139804869-rep-1404090738?responsive=1&title=1\">last Spring\u003c/a> – cash spent to set up the claims process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trotter, a retired California Appeals Court judge, charges $1,500 an hour, according to another court \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20698873-m034139804869-rep-1404090738?responsive=1&title=1\">filing\u003c/a>, while claims administrator Cathy Yanni bills $1,250 an hour. Both work at Irvine-based JAMS, previously known as Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc, one of the nation's largest private dispute resolution provider firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're paying themselves very well. They have these enormous legal costs and there's not much to show for it,\" Cook said. \"It’s like everything is a black hole and nothing moves, and there’s nothing you can do about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11872556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1149\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust.jpg 1149w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust-800x1017.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust-1020x1296.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust-160x203.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Yanni told KQED she expected it would take two years to pay all victims with claims. Some fire survivors fear it will take much longer. The longer it takes, the higher the cost of overhead will be. Trotter wrote in April, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20699521-letter_from_the_trustee_4-12-21?responsive=1&title=1\">letter addressed to fire victims\u003c/a>, that past claims processes he’s overseen ended up costing between 2% and 4% of overall funds, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My goal is to keep the cost of administration below or as close to 1% as possible,\" Trotter wrote of the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E announced its plans to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2019, 10 weeks after its equipment sparked the Camp Fire, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">killed at least 85 people\u003c/a> and destroyed almost 19,000 homes and businesses in and around Paradise. The settlement with tens of thousands of fire victims resulted from those proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11833283 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/PGE-Subcontractors-Inspect-1038x576.jpg']There were concerns about overhead expenses as early as last Spring, when U.S. bankruptcy judge Dennis Montali mulled whether to approve startup costs for the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tell me why I shouldn't think this is just a risk to have a very large amount of money be paid out without any kind of control over what happens,\" Montali said at a hearing last April. Attorneys representing fire victims pleaded with Montali to approve Trotter’s appointment. Minutes later, Montali relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montali was encouraged to greenlight the overhead by some of the fire victims’ own attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald Singleton, an attorney who represents 6,500 fire victims and sits on the Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee’s budget subcommittee, said he’s not concerned about the Trust’s overhead. \"When you’re talking about what they have to do, I certainly think the money is reasonable,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The amounts they make are phenomenal. They're just incredible amounts,\" Singleton said. \"But that's what people at their level make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singleton agreed that the payments to victims have trickled out slowly, but he said the pace is picking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Scott McNutt, a former California State Bar governor and veteran bankruptcy attorney told KQED the amounts are excessive for the meager results obtained so far and that the Trust \"has been completely non-transparent about what it’s doing for this money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the hallmarks of the bankruptcy process is transparency,\" he said. \"One of the hallmarks of trust administration is transparency. That’s why they’re called trusts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process has been complicated by the terms of PG&E’s settlement with fire victims, which was funded half with cash and half with PG&E stock. The complicated arrangement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805766/pge-victims-weigh-rare-stock-funded-trust-amid-market-turmoil\">which has few precedents\u003c/a>, made the fire victims major shareholders in the utility and made administering the Trust far more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Fire Victims Trust told KQED the Trust had increased its payments to families this year and had now put $195.2 million into the hands of those who lost loved ones, homes and businesses lost to fires caused by PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That figure still comes to less than 2% of the amount promised to families when they voted on the settlement last year. The spokesman also said the Trust had begun to make partial payments to a small percentage of families. Those partial payments, which average approximately $13,000, have gone to 9,532 of the 67,170 eligible families, a spokesperson for the Trust said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 334 families have had their claims fully processed. Those families are \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210312005517/en/Fire-Victim-Trust-to-Begin-Making-First-Pro-Rata-Payments-to-Fire-Victims\">getting 30% of what they’re owed\u003c/a>, the Trust said, while the Trust collects its own fees in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pre-fire-Exterior-cook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pre-fire-Exterior-cook.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pre-fire-Exterior-cook-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Bill Cook's family home in Paradise before it was destroyed by the Camp Fire in 2018. Two and a half years later, Cook and his family are barely scraping by, and haven't seen a dime from the Fire Victim Trust. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Cook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Who's Getting Paid\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Trust’s annual report is short on details about who got paid, and how much. It reports operating expenses solely by category – $16.3 million “claims processor fees and expenses,” for example, and $6.8 million for “insurance, data and other expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust declined to provide KQED with a list of companies it is working with and what it has paid them. But KQED’s review of documents identified more than half a dozen law firms and financial institutions that have profited off the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Trust told fire victims in an April letter that it had retained Richmond, Virginia-based BrownGreer for claims processing. John Trotter, the trustee, wrote that the firm, which specializes in resolving complex legal settlements, had 300 staff members \"committed to this project, including attorneys, project managers, analysts, claim reviewers, and software developers,\" and was adding staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust also tallied $6.2 million in legal fees during the period. Again, the Trust refused to provide an accounting of this work. Last year, Trotter retained the firm \u003ca href=\"https://restructuring.primeclerk.com/pge/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=NDAxNjA3&id2=0\">Brown Rudnick\u003c/a> to represent him in bankruptcy court, and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M344/K182/344182620.PDF\">Morgan Lewis\u003c/a> to represent him at the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial advisers have been paid $3 million. The Trust has retained the services of \u003ca href=\"https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Letter_from_the_Trustee.pdf\">Morgan Stanley and Houlihan Lokey\u003c/a> to monetize its vast holdings of PG&E stock, according to a January letter Trotter wrote to fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust also listed $303,706 in unspecified consulting fees. The Trust’s public relations firm, Zumado, would not elaborate on what those fees entailed. Zumado also refused to comment on how much it has been paid by the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accounting firm BDO \u003ca href=\"https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Fire_Victim_Trust_Annual_Report_2020.pdf\">prepared\u003c/a> the Trust’s annual report. Again, no one was willing to share any records about how much they were paid for that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED contacted all the firms, seeking confirmation that they received money from the Trust, and asking how much. BDO was the only one to respond but declined to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Falling Short by Design?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As PG&E approached the end of its bankruptcy last year, Singleton and several other mass tort attorneys were busy persuading their fire victim clients to vote in favor of the complicated part-stock settlement. Some fire survivors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801571/fire-victims-ask-judge-to-reconsider-13-5-billion-pge-settlement\">wrote to Judge Montali\u003c/a> expressing outrage at the idea of accepting stock in the company that harmed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the stock component, the value of the Trust fluctuates every day. So far, the Fire Victim Trust’s financial advisers haven’t liquidated any shares as the stock price has languished. Today, the Trust holds almost a quarter of all PG&E shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Fire survivor Mary Wallace was among a group of fire survivors who fought against the stock component last year. At the time, she argued in court it would slow down the process of compensating victims. To her, those concerns have come home to roost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re still living in squalor,\" said Wallace, who lives in a shed with no insulation on her property in Paradise. \"We still don’t have anything. It’s beyond belief. I am thoroughly disappointed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace said she grew so disillusioned with the process, she abandoned her claim altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a collaborative project of NPR’s California Newsroom, including Northern California Public Media, CapRadio and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In its first year of operation, the PG&E Fire Victim Trust spent nearly 90% of its funds on overhead expenses while families who lost their homes waited for help.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1621036408,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1817},"headData":{"title":"Survivors Stuck in Limbo as PG&E Fire Victim Trust Pays Out $50 Million in Fees | KQED","description":"In its first year of operation, the PG&E Fire Victim Trust spent nearly 90% of its funds on overhead expenses while families who lost their homes waited for help.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Survivors Stuck in Limbo as PG&E Fire Victim Trust Pays Out $50 Million in Fees","datePublished":"2021-05-06T08:02:18.000Z","dateModified":"2021-05-14T23:53:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11872328 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11872328","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/06/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees/","disqusTitle":"Survivors Stuck in Limbo as PG&E Fire Victim Trust Pays Out $50 Million in Fees","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/0f5a74eb-bcde-40aa-bd43-ad20011195d9/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees","audioDuration":241000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer Bill Cook lost his home in Paradise during the Camp Fire, the 2018 blaze \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. equipment\u003c/a> that ranks as the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two years later, Cook, 70, and his family are barely scraping by. Like Cook, the vast majority of the 67,000 PG&E fire victims included in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11791785/pge-axes-requirement-for-newsom-to-ok-13-5-billion-settlement-with-wildfire-victims\">December 2019 settlement\u003c/a> with the company have yet to see a dime. That's as lawyers and administrators have been paid millions, with the money coming directly from funds set aside to help survivors like Cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They're paying themselves very well... It’s like everything is a black hole and nothing moves, and there’s nothing you can do about it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Bill Cook, Camp Fire survivor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation found that while they waited, a special Fire Victim Trust in charge of compensating survivors racked up $51 million in overhead costs last year. During that same period, the Trust disbursed just $7 million to fire victims – less than 0.1% of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/07/785775074/pg-e-announces-13-5-billion-settlement-of-claims-linked-to-california-wildfires\">$13.5 billion promised\u003c/a> – according to an analysis of federal bankruptcy court filings, court transcripts and correspondence between staff of the Fire Victim Trust and the victims themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During its first year of operation, the Trust spent nearly 90% of its funds on overhead, while fire victims waited for help, KQED found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Cook lives 100 miles away from Paradise in Davis, where he shares a three-bedroom rental with his 68-year-old wife, Leslie, their four adult children and three grandchildren. He’s eaten into his savings to pay rent, which costs triple what he paid for his mortgage in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re stuck,\" Cook said. \"You can’t go anywhere. You can’t get anything. You can’t move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Cook-Living-Room-Davis-1536x1149.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Cook sits at a table in the three-bedroom rental home in Davis where he now lives with his wife, Leslie, their four adult children including Evan (left) and their three grandchildren. The family used paper dividers in the den to create another bedroom. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Cook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the Fire Victim Trust declined to be interviewed. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20698865-m034140771109-rep-2904080931?responsive=1&title=1\">annual report\u003c/a> filed in federal bankruptcy court last week by its trustee, John Trotter, reported $38.7 million spent on financial professionals, claims administrators, consultants and other operating expenses between July 1 and the end of 2020. Documents reviewed by KQED show the Trust took in an additional $12.7 million in funding provided by PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20698873-m034139804869-rep-1404090738?responsive=1&title=1\">last Spring\u003c/a> – cash spent to set up the claims process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trotter, a retired California Appeals Court judge, charges $1,500 an hour, according to another court \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20698873-m034139804869-rep-1404090738?responsive=1&title=1\">filing\u003c/a>, while claims administrator Cathy Yanni bills $1,250 an hour. Both work at Irvine-based JAMS, previously known as Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc, one of the nation's largest private dispute resolution provider firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're paying themselves very well. They have these enormous legal costs and there's not much to show for it,\" Cook said. \"It’s like everything is a black hole and nothing moves, and there’s nothing you can do about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11872556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1149\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust.jpg 1149w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust-800x1017.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust-1020x1296.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/pge-trust-160x203.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Yanni told KQED she expected it would take two years to pay all victims with claims. Some fire survivors fear it will take much longer. The longer it takes, the higher the cost of overhead will be. Trotter wrote in April, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20699521-letter_from_the_trustee_4-12-21?responsive=1&title=1\">letter addressed to fire victims\u003c/a>, that past claims processes he’s overseen ended up costing between 2% and 4% of overall funds, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My goal is to keep the cost of administration below or as close to 1% as possible,\" Trotter wrote of the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E announced its plans to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2019, 10 weeks after its equipment sparked the Camp Fire, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise\">killed at least 85 people\u003c/a> and destroyed almost 19,000 homes and businesses in and around Paradise. The settlement with tens of thousands of fire victims resulted from those proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11833283","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/PGE-Subcontractors-Inspect-1038x576.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There were concerns about overhead expenses as early as last Spring, when U.S. bankruptcy judge Dennis Montali mulled whether to approve startup costs for the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tell me why I shouldn't think this is just a risk to have a very large amount of money be paid out without any kind of control over what happens,\" Montali said at a hearing last April. Attorneys representing fire victims pleaded with Montali to approve Trotter’s appointment. Minutes later, Montali relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montali was encouraged to greenlight the overhead by some of the fire victims’ own attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald Singleton, an attorney who represents 6,500 fire victims and sits on the Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee’s budget subcommittee, said he’s not concerned about the Trust’s overhead. \"When you’re talking about what they have to do, I certainly think the money is reasonable,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The amounts they make are phenomenal. They're just incredible amounts,\" Singleton said. \"But that's what people at their level make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singleton agreed that the payments to victims have trickled out slowly, but he said the pace is picking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Scott McNutt, a former California State Bar governor and veteran bankruptcy attorney told KQED the amounts are excessive for the meager results obtained so far and that the Trust \"has been completely non-transparent about what it’s doing for this money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the hallmarks of the bankruptcy process is transparency,\" he said. \"One of the hallmarks of trust administration is transparency. That’s why they’re called trusts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process has been complicated by the terms of PG&E’s settlement with fire victims, which was funded half with cash and half with PG&E stock. The complicated arrangement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805766/pge-victims-weigh-rare-stock-funded-trust-amid-market-turmoil\">which has few precedents\u003c/a>, made the fire victims major shareholders in the utility and made administering the Trust far more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Fire Victims Trust told KQED the Trust had increased its payments to families this year and had now put $195.2 million into the hands of those who lost loved ones, homes and businesses lost to fires caused by PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That figure still comes to less than 2% of the amount promised to families when they voted on the settlement last year. The spokesman also said the Trust had begun to make partial payments to a small percentage of families. Those partial payments, which average approximately $13,000, have gone to 9,532 of the 67,170 eligible families, a spokesperson for the Trust said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 334 families have had their claims fully processed. Those families are \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210312005517/en/Fire-Victim-Trust-to-Begin-Making-First-Pro-Rata-Payments-to-Fire-Victims\">getting 30% of what they’re owed\u003c/a>, the Trust said, while the Trust collects its own fees in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pre-fire-Exterior-cook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pre-fire-Exterior-cook.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pre-fire-Exterior-cook-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Bill Cook's family home in Paradise before it was destroyed by the Camp Fire in 2018. Two and a half years later, Cook and his family are barely scraping by, and haven't seen a dime from the Fire Victim Trust. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bill Cook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Who's Getting Paid\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Trust’s annual report is short on details about who got paid, and how much. It reports operating expenses solely by category – $16.3 million “claims processor fees and expenses,” for example, and $6.8 million for “insurance, data and other expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust declined to provide KQED with a list of companies it is working with and what it has paid them. But KQED’s review of documents identified more than half a dozen law firms and financial institutions that have profited off the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Trust told fire victims in an April letter that it had retained Richmond, Virginia-based BrownGreer for claims processing. John Trotter, the trustee, wrote that the firm, which specializes in resolving complex legal settlements, had 300 staff members \"committed to this project, including attorneys, project managers, analysts, claim reviewers, and software developers,\" and was adding staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust also tallied $6.2 million in legal fees during the period. Again, the Trust refused to provide an accounting of this work. Last year, Trotter retained the firm \u003ca href=\"https://restructuring.primeclerk.com/pge/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=NDAxNjA3&id2=0\">Brown Rudnick\u003c/a> to represent him in bankruptcy court, and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M344/K182/344182620.PDF\">Morgan Lewis\u003c/a> to represent him at the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"pge"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial advisers have been paid $3 million. The Trust has retained the services of \u003ca href=\"https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Letter_from_the_Trustee.pdf\">Morgan Stanley and Houlihan Lokey\u003c/a> to monetize its vast holdings of PG&E stock, according to a January letter Trotter wrote to fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust also listed $303,706 in unspecified consulting fees. The Trust’s public relations firm, Zumado, would not elaborate on what those fees entailed. Zumado also refused to comment on how much it has been paid by the Fire Victim Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accounting firm BDO \u003ca href=\"https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Fire_Victim_Trust_Annual_Report_2020.pdf\">prepared\u003c/a> the Trust’s annual report. Again, no one was willing to share any records about how much they were paid for that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED contacted all the firms, seeking confirmation that they received money from the Trust, and asking how much. BDO was the only one to respond but declined to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Falling Short by Design?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As PG&E approached the end of its bankruptcy last year, Singleton and several other mass tort attorneys were busy persuading their fire victim clients to vote in favor of the complicated part-stock settlement. Some fire survivors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801571/fire-victims-ask-judge-to-reconsider-13-5-billion-pge-settlement\">wrote to Judge Montali\u003c/a> expressing outrage at the idea of accepting stock in the company that harmed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the stock component, the value of the Trust fluctuates every day. So far, the Fire Victim Trust’s financial advisers haven’t liquidated any shares as the stock price has languished. Today, the Trust holds almost a quarter of all PG&E shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Fire survivor Mary Wallace was among a group of fire survivors who fought against the stock component last year. At the time, she argued in court it would slow down the process of compensating victims. To her, those concerns have come home to roost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re still living in squalor,\" said Wallace, who lives in a shed with no insulation on her property in Paradise. \"We still don’t have anything. It’s beyond belief. I am thoroughly disappointed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace said she grew so disillusioned with the process, she abandoned her claim altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a collaborative project of NPR’s California Newsroom, including Northern California Public Media, CapRadio and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11872328/survivors-stuck-in-limbo-as-pge-fire-victim-trust-pays-out-50-million-in-fees","authors":["11552"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_24483","news_27626","news_21878","news_29433","news_22753","news_140","news_24802","news_27132","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11872332","label":"news_72"},"news_11824596":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11824596","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11824596","score":null,"sort":[1592334146000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise","title":"As PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Deaths in Camp Fire, Report Says It Put Profits Over Safety","publishDate":1592334146,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Our equipment started that fire,' said PG&E CEO Bill Johnson, who apologized directly to families of Camp Fire victims in a hearing on Tuesday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1592355291,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1625},"headData":{"title":"As PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Deaths in Camp Fire, Report Says It Put Profits Over Safety | KQED","description":"'Our equipment started that fire,' said PG&E CEO Bill Johnson, who apologized directly to families of Camp Fire victims in a hearing on Tuesday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"As PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Deaths in Camp Fire, Report Says It Put Profits Over Safety","datePublished":"2020-06-16T19:02:26.000Z","dateModified":"2020-06-17T00:54:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11824596 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11824596","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/16/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise/","disqusTitle":"As PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Deaths in Camp Fire, Report Says It Put Profits Over Safety","nprByline":"Michael Liedtke and Janie Har\u003cbr>The Associated Press","path":"/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11710884","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1070764466-e1544221282927-1038x576.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'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.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mike Ramsey, Butte County district attorney","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"pge","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11824596/pge-pleads-guilty-to-84-deaths-in-wildfire-that-destroyed-paradise","authors":["byline_news_11824596"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_25270","news_22754","news_18538","news_24483","news_27626","news_22753","news_140","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11824598","label":"news"},"news_11822384":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11822384","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11822384","score":null,"sort":[1591222901000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-final-days-of-pge-fire-settlement-vote-hundreds-of-survivors-still-had-no-ballots","title":"In Final Days of PG&E Fire Settlement Vote, Hundreds of Survivors Still Had No Ballots","publishDate":1591222901,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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. And make no mistake; these proceedings are part of the event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Questions over the integrity of a vote crucial to PG&E's exit from bankruptcy continue as the court weighs a request for an independent examiner.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1591226622,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1258},"headData":{"title":"In Final Days of PG&E Fire Settlement Vote, Hundreds of Survivors Still Had No Ballots | KQED","description":"Questions over the integrity of a vote crucial to PG&E's exit from bankruptcy continue as the court weighs a request for an independent examiner.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In Final Days of PG&E Fire Settlement Vote, Hundreds of Survivors Still Had No Ballots","datePublished":"2020-06-03T22:21:41.000Z","dateModified":"2020-06-03T23:23:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11822384 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11822384","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/03/in-final-days-of-pge-fire-settlement-vote-hundreds-of-survivors-still-had-no-ballots/","disqusTitle":"In Final Days of PG&E Fire Settlement Vote, Hundreds of Survivors Still Had No Ballots","path":"/news/11822384/in-final-days-of-pge-fire-settlement-vote-hundreds-of-survivors-still-had-no-ballots","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11819900","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Camp-Fire-Aftermath-1038x576.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"pge"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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. And make no mistake; these proceedings are part of the event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11822384/in-final-days-of-pge-fire-settlement-vote-hundreds-of-survivors-still-had-no-ballots","authors":["11552"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_24483","news_25772","news_22753","news_140","news_24802","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11822708","label":"news"},"news_11819900":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11819900","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11819900","score":null,"sort":[1590107703000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"crucial-vote-on-pge-settlement-marked-by-late-ballots-high-emotion-for-some-fire-survivors","title":"Crucial Vote on PG&E Settlement Marked by Late Ballots, High Emotion for Some Fire Survivors","publishDate":1590107703,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Last week, Camp Fire survivor Robert Bean received a thick, battered envelope in the mail at his property in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return address on the package was PG&E Ballot Processing, care of Prime Clerk, the company hired by the utility to send detailed informational packets and voting ballots on its multibillion-dollar settlement to 70,000 fire survivors like Bean, who have wildfire-related claims against PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of the settlement vote is crucial for PG&E, which 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 PG&E's bankruptcy plan to move forward, two-thirds of the fire survivors who vote on the settlement deal must approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bean's package arrived at the address of his former home, burned when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808166/pge-pleads-guilty-to-involuntary-manslaughter-in-deadly-camp-fire\">PG&E equipment sparked the Camp Fire,\u003c/a> leveling Paradise and killing 85 people in November 2018. It came on May 14, just one day before the deadline for fire survivors to vote on the high-stakes settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was too late to mail in – ballots had to be received by Prime Clerk by May 15 – let alone to read the dozens of pages of complex legal documents explaining the agreement. In the final hours, Bean called Prime Clerk and cast his vote by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's one hell of a way to do business,\" Bean told KQED. \"I feel the integrity of the vote was violated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a court hearing last week, PG&E bankruptcy lawyer Stephen Karotkin told Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, who is overseeing the PG&E bankruptcy case, that dissemination of voting materials took place between March 30 and April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire survivors were supposed to have six weeks to read through the complex materials and vote, a timeframe agreed on by PG&E and several other parties, including the official committee for fire survivors – and approved by Montali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dozen PG&E fire survivors told KQED they didn't get their materials in the mail until May, in the final days of the six-week voting period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent in early April, some fire survivors were also given the option of receiving an electronic ballot. They just had to email Prime Clerk directly to receive one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some, like Camp Fire survivor Mary Kim Wallace of Magalia, reliable cell service and internet access are luxuries they don't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After making daily trips to the post office looking for her materials in the run up to the deadline, Wallace finally got her packet on May 16, the day after voting ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've got a weak population here. We're taking care of ourselves off the grid,\" said Wallace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']Less than a week before the deadline, Wallace sent a letter to Judge Montali asking him to extend the voting period by 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all of the 12 fire survivors interviewed by KQED about the delays, Wallace doesn't have a lawyer representing her in the PG&E bankruptcy case, a group PG&E has stated in Montali's court could comprise as many as 18,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E and Prime Clerk are overseeing the voting, and didn't answer specific questions about why some survivors got their materials well after the dissemination date the utility's lawyers stated in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we can't speak to those incidences or circumstances surrounding them, the court's balloting agent — Prime Clerk — will make a filing later this week to communicate the final voting results,\" said PG&E spokeswoman Ari Vanrenen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voting process has been contentious, with fire survivors opposed to the deal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817486/pge-bankruptcy-judge-weighs-potential-conflict-of-interest-of-fire-survivors-lawyer\">taking issue with lawyers\u003c/a> who have encouraged their clients to support it. The timing of payment and final amount of the settlement – which on paper is worth $13.5 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805766/pge-victims-weigh-rare-stock-funded-trust-amid-market-turmoil\">combined cash and PG&E stock\u003c/a> – is still being negotiated with the utility, even now that voting is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11819194/fire-survivor-vote-on-huge-pge-settlement-can-stand-says-judge-despite-concern-over-lawyers-potential-conflict\">said this week\u003c/a> that preliminary results show overwhelming support from fire survivors. Approval from two-thirds of them would give PG&E the support it needs to move forward with its Chapter 11 exit plan on time. But only those who successfully cast ballots will count in the final tally, which is set to be released on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with the voting process said it's not clear if people will be able to view their ballots afterwards to ensure that their votes were accurately counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching 70,000 people was never expected to be easy, according to UC Hastings bankruptcy professor Jared Ellias, who said the challenge has been exacerbated by the enormous spectrum of circumstances that PG&E fire survivors now find themselves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the one hand, you have people who are so highly connected and sophisticated that they're actively participating in the bankruptcy process,\" Ellias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the other hand, you have people who haven't necessary recovered personally or financially from the tragedy. Some are living in places that are on the frontier of American settlement where internet and cell service is slow, where it's hard to participate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reaching and engaging that whole community is a monumental challenge,\" Ellias added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Michelle Smith, who is still rebuilding after the 2017 Nuns Fire, getting her ballot on May 8 prompted her to vote online in hopes that it will be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have my current address. There was no problem in finding me,\" Smith said. \"I feel for the people who they haven't found yet. We were all displaced. Some left the county, I don't have a sense of how many haven't received one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting online presented challenges for Camp Fire survivor Karen Masterson, who received her packet around the same time as Smith. Masterson and her husband now live in South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After I submitted it, I realized I never accepted or rejected the proposal. It's just frustrating,\" Masterson said. Masterson called tech support at Prime Clerk to try again with a new ballot identification number but isn't sure if it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's trying to stay patient, even though voting on the settlement triggered emotions in ways she hadn't expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know the bankruptcy takes time,\" Masterson said. \"But having to keep scratching at the scab – I can't think of anybody who hasn't fallen apart in the last week because of all these feelings coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fire survivors were supposed to get six weeks to evaluate a complex, $13.5 billion deal PG&E needs to emerge from bankruptcy. Some got less than a day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1590169592,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1123},"headData":{"title":"Crucial Vote on PG&E Settlement Marked by Late Ballots, High Emotion for Some Fire Survivors | KQED","description":"Fire survivors were supposed to get six weeks to evaluate a complex, $13.5 billion deal PG&E needs to emerge from bankruptcy. Some got less than a day.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Crucial Vote on PG&E Settlement Marked by Late Ballots, High Emotion for Some Fire Survivors","datePublished":"2020-05-22T00:35:03.000Z","dateModified":"2020-05-22T17:46:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11819900 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11819900","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/21/crucial-vote-on-pge-settlement-marked-by-late-ballots-high-emotion-for-some-fire-survivors/","disqusTitle":"Crucial Vote on PG&E Settlement Marked by Late Ballots, High Emotion for Some Fire Survivors","path":"/news/11819900/crucial-vote-on-pge-settlement-marked-by-late-ballots-high-emotion-for-some-fire-survivors","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, Camp Fire survivor Robert Bean received a thick, battered envelope in the mail at his property in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return address on the package was PG&E Ballot Processing, care of Prime Clerk, the company hired by the utility to send detailed informational packets and voting ballots on its multibillion-dollar settlement to 70,000 fire survivors like Bean, who have wildfire-related claims against PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of the settlement vote is crucial for PG&E, which 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 PG&E's bankruptcy plan to move forward, two-thirds of the fire survivors who vote on the settlement deal must approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bean's package arrived at the address of his former home, burned when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808166/pge-pleads-guilty-to-involuntary-manslaughter-in-deadly-camp-fire\">PG&E equipment sparked the Camp Fire,\u003c/a> leveling Paradise and killing 85 people in November 2018. It came on May 14, just one day before the deadline for fire survivors to vote on the high-stakes settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was too late to mail in – ballots had to be received by Prime Clerk by May 15 – let alone to read the dozens of pages of complex legal documents explaining the agreement. In the final hours, Bean called Prime Clerk and cast his vote by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's one hell of a way to do business,\" Bean told KQED. \"I feel the integrity of the vote was violated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a court hearing last week, PG&E bankruptcy lawyer Stephen Karotkin told Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, who is overseeing the PG&E bankruptcy case, that dissemination of voting materials took place between March 30 and April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire survivors were supposed to have six weeks to read through the complex materials and vote, a timeframe agreed on by PG&E and several other parties, including the official committee for fire survivors – and approved by Montali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a dozen PG&E fire survivors told KQED they didn't get their materials in the mail until May, in the final days of the six-week voting period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent in early April, some fire survivors were also given the option of receiving an electronic ballot. They just had to email Prime Clerk directly to receive one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some, like Camp Fire survivor Mary Kim Wallace of Magalia, reliable cell service and internet access are luxuries they don't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After making daily trips to the post office looking for her materials in the run up to the deadline, Wallace finally got her packet on May 16, the day after voting ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've got a weak population here. We're taking care of ourselves off the grid,\" said Wallace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"pge"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Less than a week before the deadline, Wallace sent a letter to Judge Montali asking him to extend the voting period by 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all of the 12 fire survivors interviewed by KQED about the delays, Wallace doesn't have a lawyer representing her in the PG&E bankruptcy case, a group PG&E has stated in Montali's court could comprise as many as 18,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E and Prime Clerk are overseeing the voting, and didn't answer specific questions about why some survivors got their materials well after the dissemination date the utility's lawyers stated in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we can't speak to those incidences or circumstances surrounding them, the court's balloting agent — Prime Clerk — will make a filing later this week to communicate the final voting results,\" said PG&E spokeswoman Ari Vanrenen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voting process has been contentious, with fire survivors opposed to the deal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817486/pge-bankruptcy-judge-weighs-potential-conflict-of-interest-of-fire-survivors-lawyer\">taking issue with lawyers\u003c/a> who have encouraged their clients to support it. The timing of payment and final amount of the settlement – which on paper is worth $13.5 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805766/pge-victims-weigh-rare-stock-funded-trust-amid-market-turmoil\">combined cash and PG&E stock\u003c/a> – is still being negotiated with the utility, even now that voting is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11819194/fire-survivor-vote-on-huge-pge-settlement-can-stand-says-judge-despite-concern-over-lawyers-potential-conflict\">said this week\u003c/a> that preliminary results show overwhelming support from fire survivors. Approval from two-thirds of them would give PG&E the support it needs to move forward with its Chapter 11 exit plan on time. But only those who successfully cast ballots will count in the final tally, which is set to be released on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with the voting process said it's not clear if people will be able to view their ballots afterwards to ensure that their votes were accurately counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching 70,000 people was never expected to be easy, according to UC Hastings bankruptcy professor Jared Ellias, who said the challenge has been exacerbated by the enormous spectrum of circumstances that PG&E fire survivors now find themselves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the one hand, you have people who are so highly connected and sophisticated that they're actively participating in the bankruptcy process,\" Ellias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the other hand, you have people who haven't necessary recovered personally or financially from the tragedy. Some are living in places that are on the frontier of American settlement where internet and cell service is slow, where it's hard to participate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reaching and engaging that whole community is a monumental challenge,\" Ellias added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Michelle Smith, who is still rebuilding after the 2017 Nuns Fire, getting her ballot on May 8 prompted her to vote online in hopes that it will be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have my current address. There was no problem in finding me,\" Smith said. \"I feel for the people who they haven't found yet. We were all displaced. Some left the county, I don't have a sense of how many haven't received one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting online presented challenges for Camp Fire survivor Karen Masterson, who received her packet around the same time as Smith. Masterson and her husband now live in South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After I submitted it, I realized I never accepted or rejected the proposal. It's just frustrating,\" Masterson said. Masterson called tech support at Prime Clerk to try again with a new ballot identification number but isn't sure if it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's trying to stay patient, even though voting on the settlement triggered emotions in ways she hadn't expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know the bankruptcy takes time,\" Masterson said. \"But having to keep scratching at the scab – I can't think of anybody who hasn't fallen apart in the last week because of all these feelings coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11819900/crucial-vote-on-pge-settlement-marked-by-late-ballots-high-emotion-for-some-fire-survivors","authors":["11552"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_24483","news_25772","news_21773","news_22753","news_140","news_24802","news_27132","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11820077","label":"news"},"news_11797124":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11797124","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11797124","score":null,"sort":[1579698161000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"where-did-all-the-camp-fire-survivors-go","title":"Where Did All the Camp Fire Survivors Go?","publishDate":1579698161,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Jhan Dunn had lived in Paradise for about a decade before the Camp Fire swept through the town on Nov. 8, 2018, destroying her home and nearly 14,000 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she's living outside of California for the first time in her adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we could not rebuild our home,\" Dunn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, she and her husband lost their bid on a house in nearby Corning because they couldn't acquire fire insurance on it. And, it turned out, they were underinsured on the home they lost in the Paradise fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm living in North Carolina,\" Dunn said. \"My whole family is all in California. We're both very resentful because our insurance company wouldn't pay us what we were covered for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dunns are just one family among many that scattered across the country after the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and remains the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California State University, Chico, study has been \u003ca href=\"https://today.csuchico.edu/mapping-a-displaced-population/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mapping out\u003c/a> where survivors of the wildfire ended up. Using data including U.S. Postal Service change-of-address information, researchers found new mailing addresses for roughly a third of former Paradise residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small clusters have landed in mid-sized cities like Boise, Denver, Salt Lake City and Orlando. One cluster turned up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/crossvillecitytennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crossville, Tennessee, a town of less than 12,000 people.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of survivors has emerged as one of the most important factors determining who stayed and who moved away, said geographic information systems specialist Peter Hansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of the 65 or older population, half of that group moved beyond 30 miles of the fire,\" he said. \"That says to me that we lost a lot of our older population. The people that were able to remain were more of the working age population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-800x294.png\" alt=\"Chico State researchers found that older populations left the area at a much higher rate than those between the ages of 18 and 65.\" width=\"800\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-800x294.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-160x59.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-1020x375.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2.png 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chico State researchers found that older populations left the area at a much higher rate than those between the ages of 18 and 65. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State University, Chico)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The data also indicates that income levels played a role in where survivors landed. The city closest to the Camp Fire footprint, Chico, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/secondary-burns-chico-calif-is-in-tumult-after-a-fire-emptied-out-neighboring-paradise/2019/08/02/26263e38-b2e5-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had a tight housing market\u003c/a> that was exacerbated by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more money you made, the more likely you were to be able to land in Chico,\" Hansen said. \"There wasn't enough housing in Chico to accommodate everybody, so if you had the means, you were more likely to have a place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data shows that 47% of those whose annual income was less than $25,000 moved 30 miles or more from Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-800x326.png\" alt=\"Income played a role in how far people moved, with the most affluent households largely relocating to nearby Chico and individuals with the lowest income more likely to move out of the area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-800x326.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-160x65.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-1020x416.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2.png 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Income played a role in how far people moved, with the most affluent households largely relocating to nearby Chico and individuals with the lowest income more likely to move out of the area. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State University, Chico)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fourteen months after the Camp Fire, life for many survivors remains in flux. Three-quarters of new addresses listed in Paradise are for post office boxes, not homes. And to Hansen, that's an indicator that this subset of survivors hasn't gone far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may not be living in Paradise necessarily, but they're still around. They're getting their mail there,\" Hansen said. \"So that's indicating that they're still in the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Geographic information systems specialist Peter Hansen analyzed data on where former Paradise residents relocated after the Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geographic information systems specialist Peter Hansen analyzed data on where former Paradise residents relocated after the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some are still deciding whether to stay in the region, former Paradise Mayor Dan Wentland, 69, moved across the country to Crossville, Tennessee, within weeks of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went back up to Paradise immediately when the fire was still burning. I saw it, went back, and told my wife, 'We're moving because it's never going to be a town again,' \" Wentland said. \"It'll never be the Paradise that we knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://arcg.is/0e1O9G\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheaper real estate in Tennessee was a major draw. So was the fact that he has family — a brother and an uncle — in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since moving to Tennessee, Wentland says three family friends from Paradise have moved there, too, and two more could follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came out to visit and said, 'This is where we need to come to,' \" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paradise\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wentland's mother-in-law and sister-in-law are also planning to move to Tennessee soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while he's relieved to have landed on his feet, Wentland says he'll always miss what Paradise once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because I was very politically involved, I was so blessed to have a million friends,\" Wentland said. \"That can never be replaced. That will be missed forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read more about the Chico State study \u003ca href=\"https://today.csuchico.edu/mapping-a-displaced-population/\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Age and income are key factors shaping whether Camp Fire survivors stayed or moved away from the region.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1593796831,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":792},"headData":{"title":"Where Did All the Camp Fire Survivors Go? | KQED","description":"Age and income are key factors shaping whether Camp Fire survivors stayed or moved away from the region.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Where Did All the Camp Fire Survivors Go?","datePublished":"2020-01-22T13:02:41.000Z","dateModified":"2020-07-03T17:20:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11797124 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11797124","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/01/22/where-did-all-the-camp-fire-survivors-go/","disqusTitle":"Where Did All the Camp Fire Survivors Go?","audioTrackLength":170,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/news/11797124/where-did-all-the-camp-fire-survivors-go","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2020/01/JamaliCampFiresurvivors.mp3","audioDuration":166000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jhan Dunn had lived in Paradise for about a decade before the Camp Fire swept through the town on Nov. 8, 2018, destroying her home and nearly 14,000 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she's living outside of California for the first time in her adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we could not rebuild our home,\" Dunn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, she and her husband lost their bid on a house in nearby Corning because they couldn't acquire fire insurance on it. And, it turned out, they were underinsured on the home they lost in the Paradise fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm living in North Carolina,\" Dunn said. \"My whole family is all in California. We're both very resentful because our insurance company wouldn't pay us what we were covered for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dunns are just one family among many that scattered across the country after the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and remains the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California State University, Chico, study has been \u003ca href=\"https://today.csuchico.edu/mapping-a-displaced-population/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mapping out\u003c/a> where survivors of the wildfire ended up. Using data including U.S. Postal Service change-of-address information, researchers found new mailing addresses for roughly a third of former Paradise residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small clusters have landed in mid-sized cities like Boise, Denver, Salt Lake City and Orlando. One cluster turned up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/crossvillecitytennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crossville, Tennessee, a town of less than 12,000 people.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of survivors has emerged as one of the most important factors determining who stayed and who moved away, said geographic information systems specialist Peter Hansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of the 65 or older population, half of that group moved beyond 30 miles of the fire,\" he said. \"That says to me that we lost a lot of our older population. The people that were able to remain were more of the working age population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-800x294.png\" alt=\"Chico State researchers found that older populations left the area at a much higher rate than those between the ages of 18 and 65.\" width=\"800\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-800x294.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-160x59.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2-1020x375.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Ages2.png 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chico State researchers found that older populations left the area at a much higher rate than those between the ages of 18 and 65. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State University, Chico)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The data also indicates that income levels played a role in where survivors landed. The city closest to the Camp Fire footprint, Chico, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/secondary-burns-chico-calif-is-in-tumult-after-a-fire-emptied-out-neighboring-paradise/2019/08/02/26263e38-b2e5-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had a tight housing market\u003c/a> that was exacerbated by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more money you made, the more likely you were to be able to land in Chico,\" Hansen said. \"There wasn't enough housing in Chico to accommodate everybody, so if you had the means, you were more likely to have a place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data shows that 47% of those whose annual income was less than $25,000 moved 30 miles or more from Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-800x326.png\" alt=\"Income played a role in how far people moved, with the most affluent households largely relocating to nearby Chico and individuals with the lowest income more likely to move out of the area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-800x326.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-160x65.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2-1020x416.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Incomes2.png 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Income played a role in how far people moved, with the most affluent households largely relocating to nearby Chico and individuals with the lowest income more likely to move out of the area. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State University, Chico)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fourteen months after the Camp Fire, life for many survivors remains in flux. Three-quarters of new addresses listed in Paradise are for post office boxes, not homes. And to Hansen, that's an indicator that this subset of survivors hasn't gone far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may not be living in Paradise necessarily, but they're still around. They're getting their mail there,\" Hansen said. \"So that's indicating that they're still in the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Geographic information systems specialist Peter Hansen analyzed data on where former Paradise residents relocated after the Camp Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_2602-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geographic information systems specialist Peter Hansen analyzed data on where former Paradise residents relocated after the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Lily Jamali/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some are still deciding whether to stay in the region, former Paradise Mayor Dan Wentland, 69, moved across the country to Crossville, Tennessee, within weeks of the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went back up to Paradise immediately when the fire was still burning. I saw it, went back, and told my wife, 'We're moving because it's never going to be a town again,' \" Wentland said. \"It'll never be the Paradise that we knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://arcg.is/0e1O9G\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheaper real estate in Tennessee was a major draw. So was the fact that he has family — a brother and an uncle — in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since moving to Tennessee, Wentland says three family friends from Paradise have moved there, too, and two more could follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came out to visit and said, 'This is where we need to come to,' \" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"paradise"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wentland's mother-in-law and sister-in-law are also planning to move to Tennessee soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while he's relieved to have landed on his feet, Wentland says he'll always miss what Paradise once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because I was very politically involved, I was so blessed to have a million friends,\" Wentland said. \"That can never be replaced. That will be missed forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read more about the Chico State study \u003ca href=\"https://today.csuchico.edu/mapping-a-displaced-population/\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11797124/where-did-all-the-camp-fire-survivors-go","authors":["11552"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24483","news_22753"],"featImg":"news_11797171","label":"news_72"},"news_11793155":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11793155","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11793155","score":null,"sort":[1577560867000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"objects-that-matter-memories-of-paradise","title":"Objects That Matter: Memories Of Paradise","publishDate":1577560867,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When Linda and Bob Oslin lost their home last year to California's most destructive wildfire, they began searching their burned property expecting to salvage at least some sentimental items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, \"everything was gone.\" Or so she thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walls of their home had caved in. Even determining where the rooms had been was difficult. But, as Linda sifted through the debris in the footprint of the burned lot in Paradise, she began stumbling upon pieces of their life together: a pile of fused ceramic dishes; the charred head and shoulders of a fancy doll that Linda, who is 74, had treasured as a child. Also, to her surprise, there was the untouched newspaper that had been delivered that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda salvaged these random pieces — some that had sentimental value before the fire and others that gained new meaning amid the devastation of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, she displayed what was left of the doll in their new home in Oroville, Calif., and hung up the melted pile of dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was therapy,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the fragments of what had survived was a way for Linda to process the fire that had burned through her home. What was left became a reminder that this new life was \"simply the way things are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://business.creighton.edu/faculty-directory-profile/890/stacey-menzel-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stacey Menzel Baker\u003c/a>, a professor who studies object attachment at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., says we all have relationships with things — objects — much as we have relationships with people or places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11793158 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-10-15_enl-a8ad92582de4367fb2573e4fc5de921bd80af689-800x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"349\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise lost more than 11,000 homes in November 2018 in California's most destructive wildfire. Tens of thousands of people once called the ridge home. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They help us process and make sense of our lives,\" Menzel Baker says. \"It's not necessarily important what the object is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That we have a connection to our possessions is, perhaps, not surprising, but certain objects claim a special meaning in the narrative of our lives. Sentimental items can connect us with important memories or bolster a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're mechanisms for security,\" Menzel Baker explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic example is the child who feels braver when holding a blanket given him by his parents because it connects him to a relationship that strengthens him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Objects also have the power to transport us to another place or time. A souvenir from a vacation, for instance, can act as a repository of memories from the trip. Or an artist may repurpose a salvaged piece of metal from a fire as a way to \"transport them forward, or to transcend\" a catastrophic event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11793159 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-2-3_enl-b2cb78c7fa8a95ff51ec1b88e14947126486f418-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Roberds lost her home and many personal possessions in the Camp Fire, including her motorcycles. \"The biggest thing that we got out of here when we left was our next-door neighbor's dog. It was the Harley-Davidsons or the dog, \" she says. \"No-brainer.\" She still lives on the property and recently had a modular home installed. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while not everyone experiences the same need to hold on to artifacts, Menzel Baker says, we may be more prone to do so if our environment has been disrupted and we feel disconnected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the one-year anniversary of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> last month, Bonnie Bailey, revisited the site of the house that she and her husband and son had been living in Magalia, a Butte County community that neighbors Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11793168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-6-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-6.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-6-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I can’t really think of what would be more symbolic for me than finding a piece of a butterfly. My grandmother is so closely associated with orange butterflies to me that, over the years, it’s kind of always been a thing. I’ll be sitting there and one will come, and I’ll be like, ‘Oh, it’s Grandma Ricky saying hi.’ \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We lost everything that hinged us to our past,\" 46-year-old Bailey says, recalling old family photos and sentimental family heirlooms that were lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking through the property a year later, she spotted a quarter-sized ceramic chip from a mug once owned by her grandmother. The piece of pottery had a butterfly print — once orange but now a greenish-brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she wasn't particularly close to her grandmother, finding the small fragment made her feel \"connected to something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have each other. We have our animals. It's just things,\" she says. \"But somehow, there's just this feeling — we feel, just, so unhinged, like we don't know where we belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey keeps the mug fragment on the dashboard in her car. Even though she and her husband are building a new life a couple hours north, in Dunsmuir, Calif., it has been difficult for her to want to rebuild or replace the possessions she lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like falling in love. You're kind of scared to do it again,\" Bailey says. \"Do we really want to build a home again? Do we really want to have things we care about? Do we really want to have special Christmas ornaments?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, as new experiences and memories replace old ones, physical objects can lose importance as conduits of emotion and personal history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Menzel Baker says, that's different for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11793167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-13-14_custom-3fa0fd2533a79230b27bf631d8630188291cca83-s2500-c85-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Krzanich salvaged his grandfather's ships clock. Though it was damaged by the fire, he can't get rid of it. \"This clock has been in my life since I was born,\" Krzanich says. \"That's how long my grandpa had it. And I watched him wind it every week — every Sunday.\" \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We use objects to tell our life stories — about how 'I went through this really hard thing, and I'm still here to tell about it,' \" Menzel Baker explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people may decide, 'That's the really important part of my story. And it's always going to be part of my story. I want it to be passed on to my kids and my grandkids.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Objects+That+Matter%3A+Memories+Of+Paradise&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the year since Paradise was devastated by the Camp Fire, certain flame-tinged objects — scorched pottery fragments or remnants of toys — have become talismans of resilience beyond pain.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1577561318,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1017},"headData":{"title":"Objects That Matter: Memories Of Paradise | KQED","description":"In the year since Paradise was devastated by the Camp Fire, certain flame-tinged objects — scorched pottery fragments or remnants of toys — have become talismans of resilience beyond pain.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Objects That Matter: Memories Of Paradise","datePublished":"2019-12-28T19:21:07.000Z","dateModified":"2019-12-28T19:28:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11793155 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11793155","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/28/objects-that-matter-memories-of-paradise/","disqusTitle":"Objects That Matter: Memories Of Paradise","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","nprByline":"Meredith Rizzo","nprImageAgency":"Meredith Rizzo/NPR","nprStoryId":"790714449","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=790714449&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/28/790714449/objects-that-matter-memories-of-paradise?ft=nprml&f=790714449","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 28 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 28 Dec 2019 06:00:15 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 28 Dec 2019 06:00:15 -0500","path":"/news/11793155/objects-that-matter-memories-of-paradise","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Linda and Bob Oslin lost their home last year to California's most destructive wildfire, they began searching their burned property expecting to salvage at least some sentimental items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, \"everything was gone.\" Or so she thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walls of their home had caved in. Even determining where the rooms had been was difficult. But, as Linda sifted through the debris in the footprint of the burned lot in Paradise, she began stumbling upon pieces of their life together: a pile of fused ceramic dishes; the charred head and shoulders of a fancy doll that Linda, who is 74, had treasured as a child. Also, to her surprise, there was the untouched newspaper that had been delivered that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda salvaged these random pieces — some that had sentimental value before the fire and others that gained new meaning amid the devastation of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, she displayed what was left of the doll in their new home in Oroville, Calif., and hung up the melted pile of dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was therapy,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the fragments of what had survived was a way for Linda to process the fire that had burned through her home. What was left became a reminder that this new life was \"simply the way things are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://business.creighton.edu/faculty-directory-profile/890/stacey-menzel-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stacey Menzel Baker\u003c/a>, a professor who studies object attachment at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., says we all have relationships with things — objects — much as we have relationships with people or places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11793158 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-10-15_enl-a8ad92582de4367fb2573e4fc5de921bd80af689-800x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"349\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paradise lost more than 11,000 homes in November 2018 in California's most destructive wildfire. Tens of thousands of people once called the ridge home. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They help us process and make sense of our lives,\" Menzel Baker says. \"It's not necessarily important what the object is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That we have a connection to our possessions is, perhaps, not surprising, but certain objects claim a special meaning in the narrative of our lives. Sentimental items can connect us with important memories or bolster a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're mechanisms for security,\" Menzel Baker explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic example is the child who feels braver when holding a blanket given him by his parents because it connects him to a relationship that strengthens him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Objects also have the power to transport us to another place or time. A souvenir from a vacation, for instance, can act as a repository of memories from the trip. Or an artist may repurpose a salvaged piece of metal from a fire as a way to \"transport them forward, or to transcend\" a catastrophic event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11793159 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-2-3_enl-b2cb78c7fa8a95ff51ec1b88e14947126486f418-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Roberds lost her home and many personal possessions in the Camp Fire, including her motorcycles. \"The biggest thing that we got out of here when we left was our next-door neighbor's dog. It was the Harley-Davidsons or the dog, \" she says. \"No-brainer.\" She still lives on the property and recently had a modular home installed. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while not everyone experiences the same need to hold on to artifacts, Menzel Baker says, we may be more prone to do so if our environment has been disrupted and we feel disconnected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the one-year anniversary of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> last month, Bonnie Bailey, revisited the site of the house that she and her husband and son had been living in Magalia, a Butte County community that neighbors Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11793168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-6-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-6.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/objects-fire-6-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I can’t really think of what would be more symbolic for me than finding a piece of a butterfly. My grandmother is so closely associated with orange butterflies to me that, over the years, it’s kind of always been a thing. I’ll be sitting there and one will come, and I’ll be like, ‘Oh, it’s Grandma Ricky saying hi.’ \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We lost everything that hinged us to our past,\" 46-year-old Bailey says, recalling old family photos and sentimental family heirlooms that were lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking through the property a year later, she spotted a quarter-sized ceramic chip from a mug once owned by her grandmother. The piece of pottery had a butterfly print — once orange but now a greenish-brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she wasn't particularly close to her grandmother, finding the small fragment made her feel \"connected to something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have each other. We have our animals. It's just things,\" she says. \"But somehow, there's just this feeling — we feel, just, so unhinged, like we don't know where we belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey keeps the mug fragment on the dashboard in her car. Even though she and her husband are building a new life a couple hours north, in Dunsmuir, Calif., it has been difficult for her to want to rebuild or replace the possessions she lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like falling in love. You're kind of scared to do it again,\" Bailey says. \"Do we really want to build a home again? Do we really want to have things we care about? 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