Fault lines
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Bill Hocker | Oct 12, 2017Steve Schneider sends this post:
It is hard to believe that this tragedy keeps on burning. Our hearts continue to go out to all of you.
Perhaps you may be able to recover some from PG&E?
I don’t know if you saw this news but it appears that the cause of the fire may have been downed power lines or blown transformers.
If PG&E was negligent, like they were in the San Bruno gas explosion disaster, all affected may be able to recover - your group may have another cause to promote, this time with attorneys who undoubtedly would take it on on contingency so you don’t have to pay them upfront.
Just a thought, trying to be helpful.
SF Business Times 10/12/17: PG&E power lines may have provided key spark to North Bay inferno
Perhaps you may be able to recover some from PG&E?
I don’t know if you saw this news but it appears that the cause of the fire may have been downed power lines or blown transformers.
If PG&E was negligent, like they were in the San Bruno gas explosion disaster, all affected may be able to recover - your group may have another cause to promote, this time with attorneys who undoubtedly would take it on on contingency so you don’t have to pay them upfront.
Just a thought, trying to be helpful.
SF Business Times 10/12/17: PG&E power lines may have provided key spark to North Bay inferno
I will probably end up in the minority opinion on this but PG&E has a lot more potential hazards to deal with than it humanly possible to control, especially given the unwillingness of rate payers to fund the enormous infrastructure costs to build a fail safe system. Every power line in the state has trees growing around it. Pruning them all or cutting them all down is not an option. And even if they did an earthquake might knock them down. I would like to see all the lines underground, but in our neighborhood you can't find anyone willing to spend several thousand dollars each to make it happen. Even that amount of money probably doesn't come close to the actual cost of under-grounding. I think that PG&E does a good job given the amounts of money we are willing to pay. In certain situations they may be negligent, but not making every line in their territory wind and tree-proofed is not negligence
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