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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Pacific Gas & Electric said its equipment may have been involved in starting a small wildfire that merged with a massive blaze now threatening homes in the Northern California mountains, a revelation that came Tuesday as the nation s largest utility briefed state regulators on plans to use intentional power shutoffs to try to prevent more fires.
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, Salvador Espinosa sweeps in the kitchen of a Mary s Pizza Shack restaurant during a Pacific Gas & Electric power shutdown in Santa Rosa, Calif. California utility regulators will hear from the state s largest electricity providers over steps taken to mitigate the use of planned power shutoffs, which regulators say should be used only as a last resort to prevent wildfires sparking from utility equipment
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PG&E power line may have started the Fly Fire that merged with big Dixie Fire
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A home burns as flames from the Dixie fire tear through the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County, California on Saturday, July 24, 2021. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)JOSH EDELSON/AFP / TNS
A smaller wildfire that became part of the huge Dixie Fire now burning in the Sierra Nevada may have started when a tree fell on a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power line.
PG&E said late Monday that it filed a report to state regulators about its possible link to the Fly Fire, which burned more than 4,000 acres before merging with the much larger Dixie Fire.
PG&E Says its Equipment Possibly Linked to Another Fire
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