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You’ve never accepted responsibility for any of these fires until it’s convenient or you’re up against the wall and have to plead guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge was especially critical of Schar’s contention that the company was denying the probation allegations because Shasta County investigators have not provided access to the remains of the tree that touched off the Zogg Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know good and well you started the fire,” Alsup said. “Yet you stand here and come up with good lawyer-like reasons why you can’t accept responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the company’s position “a very big disappointment to the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five years of my life, of your life, the public’s life and the U.S. attorney’s life down the drain because you won’t accept responsibility,” Alsup said. 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One possibility is that prosecutors could come back to court for an evidentiary hearing that would seek to prove that PG&E violated probation by starting the Sonoma and Shasta County fires.[aside postID=\"news_11891626,news_11890329\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Neither Stern nor PG&E attorney Schar sounded enthusiastic about the prospect of such a hearing, which would come with just half a month to go on the company’s probation and only weeks before the scheduled start of a preliminary hearing on Sonoma County’s 33-count criminal complaint arising from the Kincade Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option that Alsup raised is that the U.S. Attorney’s Office could make a motion to extend PG&E’s probation. The judge has said several times in court and in written orders that he lacked authority to extend the term of court supervision beyond five years — the maximum prescribed in federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup has made those statements despite \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21173406/usa-v-pge-us-attorneys-brief-on-extending-probation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an April 2019 brief\u003c/a> that prosecutors filed at his request. The filing said “it appears to be an open question” whether the court could impose a new term of probation that would stretch beyond five years. 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They also include felony arson counts linked to several fires started by the utility’s equipment in Shasta County over the last year, Bridgett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"wildfire\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has an estimated 16 million customers in central and Northern California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\">filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019\u003c/a> after its aging equipment was blamed for a series of fires, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and destroyed 10,000 homes in Paradise and neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company officials have acknowledged that PG&E hasn’t lived up to expectations in the past but said changes in leadership and elsewhere ensure it’s on the right track and will do better. They have listed a wide range of improvements that include using more advanced technology to avoid setting wildfires and help detect them quicker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also remains on criminal probation for a 2010 pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Bruno that killed eight people, giving a federal judge oversight of the company. 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Two counties, Shasta and Tehama, have sued the utility for negligence, arguing that PG&E had failed to remove the tree even though it had been marked for removal two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has an estimated 16 million customers in Central and Northern California, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019 after its equipment was blamed for a series of fires. Those disasters included the November 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in the Butte County communities of Paradise, Magalia and Concow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"wildfires\"]PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter over that blaze, which was linked to a badly maintained and aging transmission tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E emerged from bankruptcy last summer and negotiated a $13.5 billion settlement with wildfire victims. But it still faces both civil and criminal actions in connection with subsequent fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868261/sonoma-county-files-criminal-charges-against-pge-for-starting-2019-kincade-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed charges\u003c/a> over the October 2019 Kincade Fire. Like the Camp and Zogg fires, the blaze started during an autumn windstorm. It burned hundreds of homes and prompted authorities to order nearly 200,000 people from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881579/pge-power-line-may-have-sparked-dixie-fire-near-where-its-equipment-started-states-deadliest-blaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigating\u003c/a> the role of the utility’s equipment in sparking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881837/why-it-took-pge-9-5-hours-to-get-to-the-scene-where-dixie-fire-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Dixie Fire\u003c/a>, which started July 13 in the Feather River Canyon, about 5 miles from where the Camp Fire began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lists the blaze\u003c/a>, which has charred 240,595 acres as of Friday morning, as the 11th largest in California’s modern history. 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"content": "\u003cp>Among the roughly 1,800 inmate firefighters who battled record-setting blazes in California this year was Bounchan Keola, a 39-year-old immigrant serving a 28-year prison sentence for a gang-related shooting when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keola, who grew up in the East Bay city of Richmond after fleeing Laos with his parents when he was just 2 years old, battled six major wildfires in California this season. During an assignment on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/27/zogg-fire/\">Zogg Fire\u003c/a> this fall in Shasta County, he suffered a traumatic neck injury after being hit by a falling tree and had to be airlifted out and hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the physical pain he still suffers and the dangerous work firefighting represents, Keola still wants to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Bounchan Keola\"]‘I’m just asking for a second chance to live this American life and to be a firefighter.’[/pullquote]After his first assignment, when he was stunned to see people from the community lining up to thank him and other inmates as they returned to their bus, Keola said the work made him feel a bit like a superhero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time in my life, I felt good about myself,” he said. “I told myself this is what I want to do with my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 16, Keola was involved in a gang-related shooting and was convicted for second-degree attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He served most of his sentence and was set to be released from state prison last month. 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It’s inhumane, and it has to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be integrating them back into our community, and not facilitating the Trump deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11836399/how-two-men-went-from-prison-crew-to-professional-firefighting\">Brandon Smith\u003c/a>, executive director of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit that helps California’s incarcerated firefighters obtain gainful employment once released, said immigrant inmate firefighters deserve jobs, not deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people deserve the opportunity to hop into this [employment] space,” Smith said. “Especially after they risked their lives to save you, me, all of our families, the forest that we love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='inmate-firefighters']For months, dozens of state lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827617/state-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-stop-transferring-people-in-prison-to-ice-in-pandemic\">urged Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>PG&E disclosed Friday that Cal Fire is investigating whether the company’s equipment was involved in starting a Northern California wildfire that killed four people late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news comes just three months after the state's largest utility emerged from federal bankruptcy protection — a legal refuge it sought because it faced an estimated $30 billion in liabilities arising from wildfires sparked by its equipment. Those fires killed more than 100 people — including 85 in and around the Butte County town of Paradise — and destroyed more than 15,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reports filed with the California Public Utilities Commission and \u003ca href=\"http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001004980/08dbf9ac-a988-4e63-a6e1-73486c85663b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the federal Securities and Exchange Commission\u003c/a> on Friday, PG&E said a line in a remote area of Shasta County experienced a series of still-unexplained problems on the afternoon of Sept. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said it hasn’t yet determined the nature of the problems, which included alarms from a SmartMeter and other automated equipment and occurred about the same time as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/27/zogg-fire/\">Zogg Fire\u003c/a> broke out 10 miles southwest of Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its submission to the SEC, the utility said that Cal Fire investigators on Friday took possession of PG&E equipment in the area where the fire is believe to have started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said the area, near the intersection of Zogg Mine Road and Jenny Bird Lane where the fire broke out, is served by its 12,000-volt Girvan 1101 distribution circuit. It offered this brief narrative of the sequence of events:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"According to PG&E’s records, on September 27, 2020, a PG&E SmartMeter and a line recloser serving that area reported alarms and other activity between approximately 2:40 p.m. and 3:06 p.m., when the line recloser de-energized that portion of the circuit. The data currently available to PG&E do not establish the causes of the activity on the Girvan 1101 circuit or the locations of these causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 9, 2020, Cal Fire informed PG&E that they had taken possession of PG&E equipment as part of Cal Fire’s ongoing investigation into the cause of the Zogg Fire and allowed PG&E access to the area. PG&E does not have access to any evidence collected by Cal Fire. Cal Fire has not issued a determination as to cause. PG&E is cooperating with CAL FIRE in its investigation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The four people who died in the incident were apparently overtaken by rapidly advancing, wind-driven flames in the first hours of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started during a period when PG&E had shut off power to areas in Shasta and 15 other counties considered to be at a high risk of wildfire during a period of gusty winds and very low humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company reported it had blacked out about 65,000 customers in its service area, including some 2,800 in Shasta County. The shutoffs apparently did not include the circuit now under scrutiny by Cal Fire investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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