5 Counties File Joint Lawsuit Against PG&E Over Dixie Fire Damage

BUTTE COUNTY (CBS13) — Five Northern California counties person joined unneurotic to writer PG&E for the injuries and harm done by the Dixie Fire.

The wildfire started backmost successful July and has gone connected to pain 963,276 acres – the largest non-complex occurrence successful recorded California past – crossed parts of Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama counties. One fatality has been confirmed successful the occurrence and 1,329 structures, including galore homes, were destroyed.

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A preliminary study from PG&E acknowledged that its instrumentality whitethorn person been progressive successful the commencement of the Dixie Fire adjacent the Cresta Dam, but the authoritative origin inactive remains nether probe by Cal Fire.

On Wednesday, those 5 counties affected by the Dixie Fire announced they person present filed a associated suit against PG&E.

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“Unfortunately arsenic section elected officials we person to again bring PG&E to task implicit a preventable fire,” said Butte County’s Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Connelly successful a connection astir the lawsuit.

The suit alleges PG&E’s instrumentality started the Dixie Fire and demands ineligible damages for the slew of antagonistic impacts from the wildfire.

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As of Wednesday, the Cal Fire incidental leafage shows that the Dixie Fire remains 94 percent contained.

CBS13 Staff