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Courtesy Bill Cook toggle caption Courtesy Bill Cook Bill Cook's family home in Paradise, Calif., was destroyed by the Camp Fire in 2018. Like the vast majority of 67,000 fire victims of multiple PG&E-related fires, Cook's family has yet to see a dime. Courtesy Bill Cook Retired U.S. Foreign Service officer Bill Cook lost his home in Paradise, Calif., during the Camp Fire, the 2018 blaze sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric Company equipment that ranks as the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history. Two and a half years later, Cook, 70, and h...

Copy Link Bill Cook's family home in Paradise was destroyed by the Camp Fire, sparked by PG&E equipment in 2018. Like the vast majority of the 67,000 victims of multiple PG&E-related fires included in a December 2019 settlement with the company, Cook's family has yet to see a dime.  (Courtesy Bill Cook) Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer Bill Cook lost his home in Paradise during the Camp Fire, the 2018 blaze sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. equipment that ranks as the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history. More than two years later, Cook, 70, and his family are ba...

Print Civil rights lawyers in San Diego welcomed the verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, but were cautious whether the outcome would lead immediately to significant changes in policing and police accountability. “It’s hard to tell,” said San Diego lawyer Julia Yoo, the president of the National Police Accountability Project, an organization of more than 600 members who advocate for more accountability for law enforcement. She has represented numerous individuals and families in lawsuits against local police departments. “I think it is an important step and important moment fo...

Some PG&E fire victims in a race against time to get paid [San Francisco Chronicle] Feb. 1—Janet Ames was a California disaster survivor two times over. She held firm as the earth shook violently beneath her in 1989 and drove through a whirlwind of flames in 2018. Both catastrophes changed the course of her life, and the second may have cut it short. Nearly three decades after surviving the Loma Prieta earthquake, Ames narrowly escaped the historically ruinous Camp Fire as it laid waste to the Butte County town of Paradise. Though she emerged without any grave physical injuries, the omnipre...

Some PG&E fire survivors in a race against time to get paid FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Sharron Ames visits the former home in Paradise (Butte County) of her mother, who survived the Camp Fire but died before a settlement.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Janet Ames in her 50s with her son Robert’s wife, Cindy; her granddaughter Erin Ames; and son Peter Ames. She died last year at 85.Courtesy Ames familyShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Sharron Ames wipes away a tear while visiting Sherwood Forest Trailer Park in Paradise.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 4of5 Jan...