Updated: 7:14 PM PDT Jul 21, 2021 Daniel Macht Hilda Flores Pacific Gas & Electric Company CEO Patti Poppe said Wednesday that the utility is kicking off a project to ultimately bury 10,000 miles of lines in California’s highest-risk fire areas.Days after the utility announced that its equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, Poppe appeared in Chico to announce what she called “one of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of our state.”“We are committing to burying 10,000 miles of lines starting in our highest fire threat districts in our highest risk areas,” Poppe said of the “Make it Safe, Bury the lines” program. The program began on Wednesday.“We know this is an extraordinary condition in an extraordinary time, she said. It requires extraordinary solutions and extraordinary thinking and extraordinary people.”Why make the announcement nowPoppe said she h
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