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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by inferiorhuman on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:38PM (#21237950)
In addition to the forty-odd folks killed in 2017, PG&E started the the Camp Fire (2018) where 85 people died, one is still missing, and 17 were injured. Who knows how many will get sick from the chemicals leeching out of the plastic water infrastructure and into the water itself.

In 2015, PG&E only killed two people (Butte Fire).

PG&E also poisoned a few hundred in Hinkley (the town Erin Brockovich made famous). PG&E killed another 8 in San Bruno (and injured 58.

Oh gosh, let's not forget the Sierra Fire of 1994.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-Guilty-In-1994-Sier...

Edit: Oh gosh, downvotes. Do you guys really need links to all the blood on PG&E's hands?

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10160680-181/the-camp-fir...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubbs_Fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte_Fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by khuey on Sunday October 13, 2019 @01:53AM (#21238608)
The Tubbs Fire was probably not caused by PG&E equipment.
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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by inferiorhuman on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:59PM (#21244183)
The Tubbs Fire was probably not caused by PG&E equipment.

You're right, and if you take a look at what I wrote I did not mention the Tubbs Fire. Plenty of folks have died at the hands of PG&E, and I mistakenly added a link to it however.

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