
Lessons From California And The Slow Fall Of PG&E
Federalist Radio Hour
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What Kind of Damage Did That Fire Involve?
It became pretty clear immediately after the fire that Pichini was probably going to be implicated. It recorded an outage on the line very shortly before the fire ignited. A troubleman who worked for the company arrived by helicopter and saw the damage. Cal Fire, the state fire agency, launched an investigation and determined that the arc of electricity served from that wire was the reason that the fire ignite.
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