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2. Camp Fire (2018) - Wikipedia

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   The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.

3. Edison denied causing destructive 2017 fire. Feds now believe ...

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   The Camp fire in Paradise — which burned 153,000 acres and killed 85 people — was determined to have been caused by a high-voltage PG&E transmission line that was about 100 years old. The ...

4. Utility-caused wildfires - Wikipedia

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   The 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California state history, was caused by a single faulty hook on a PG&E transmission line. [7] [8] In the notorious 2009 'Black Saturday' fires in Victoria, Australia fires sparked by power lines killed 159 people and caused more than $4 billion (AUS) dollars in damages. [9]

5. PG&E’s plan to bury power lines is expensive. There is ...

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   The charred remains of a vehicle is ensnared amid power lines near a fallen telephone pole on Pearson Road in Paradise in 2018, near where multiple people lost their lives in the Camp Fire ...

6. Power company defends keeping transmission lines open ahead ...

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   A power company being investigated as a possible ignition point for some of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires has defended its decision to keep electrical transmission lines open right before they ...

7. Underground power line - Wikipedia

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   An underground power line provides electrical power with underground cables. Compared to overhead power lines, underground lines have lower risk of starting a wildfire and reduce the risk of the electrical supply being interrupted by outages during high winds, thunderstorms or heavy snow or ice storms. An added benefit of undergrounding is the ...

8. It’s been five years since the Camp Fire decimated Paradise ...

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   Ignited by a nearly 100-year-old PG&E power line, it took only four hours to rip through Paradise, spreading at a rate of 80 football fields a minute at its peak. The scenes and videos from that ...

9. Boiling won't help. Explaining the Palisades and Altadena 'Do ...

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   Solomon studied this phenomenon after the Camp fire destroyed about 18,000 structures in the ... Water Co., Lincoln Avenue Water Co., Pasadena Water and Power ... service lines [between water ...