PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires, Now Faces Collapse

Re:PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires, Now Faces C... by joe_the_user on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:29PM (#18906699)

Indeed, bad forestry, drought, global warming and so-forth are all to blame for large fires.

I don't think that implies that then PG&E should have taken the route of ignoring fire safety and imposing electrically activated "uncontrolled burn policy" here.

I mean, PG&E lines starting, say, 15 fires rather than 1,500 in a given high-wind, low-moisture night might have given some of the 60 people who died a bit more time to escape.

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Re:PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires, Now Faces C... by Aloha on Monday January 14, 2019 @05:22PM (#18907086)

the 1500 number isnt probably as big as it sounds.

Based on this a PG&E caused fire could be caused by someone running into a power pole or anything else that causes downed lines. Fires from power lines dont sound like a huge deal, and those 1500 fires are spread over PG&E's whole service area too

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