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Victims of the Slater fire in Northern California and Southern Oregon have filed a lawsuit alleging PacifiCorp was negligent in failing to maintain its transmission lines or de-energize them in advance of the conflagration that burned more than 157,000 acres, destroyed 700 structures and killed one person.
Happy Camp residents sue PacifiCorp, allege the utility's negligence cause Slater Fire Mount Shasta Herald The family of a person killed in the Slater Fire and several homeowners who lost their homes in the blaze have filed a lawsuit alleging that the fire was caused by PacifiCorp’s negligence. The lawsuit alleges that the Slater Fire started when PacifiCorp’s power lines came into contact with a nearby tree, according to a press release from Singleton Schreiber McKenzie and Scott, the law firm representing the fire victims. “Despite a National Weather Service red-flag warning, and bein...