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Bay area, from abc7. >> california's biggest utility company is in a deep hole and it keeps getting deeper. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm dion lim. there is not much good news coming out these days around pg&e, and today is no exception to the numbers. >> pg&e revealed today it lost more than $1.6 billion in just three months between july and september. keep in mind last year it made a half billion profit in that same time period. >> the credit that pg&e will give customers for one of the october power shutoffs will cost the company a told of $65 million. >> that is part of what is ...
Again to prevent any new fires caused by down power lines. more than a million customers never got their power restored after the last blackout over the weekend, and could be without power for several more days. many californians are skeptical of pg&e's motives, wondering if these intentional shutoffs are really a fire prevention tool or perhaps a way for the embattled utility, already in bankruptcy, to avoid further liability. state regulators are looking into that, while cal fire investigates whether faulty parlance might have sparked fires in the bay area this weekend. quick update on day t...
Are on it. still not known what sparked the fire. pacific gas & electric says minutes before it started there was an equipment malfunction. officials called it a broken jumper on one of its transmission towers near the fire's origin that wasn't turned off during the public safety power outage. the utility was fired an electrical incident report with state regulators about this but notes cal fire investigators will ultimately determine the cause. crews busy in southern california where fires have been fueled by fierce santa ana winds. one fire has burned 4,000 acres and wiped out half a dozen h...
Years including the campfire last november that killed 86 people and swept through areas of northern california like paradise and chico, at least one hundred thousand californians are eligible for payments for the damages they suffered. >> if someone, a person went and burned down your house, you'd be there filing a claim, you'd be there holding them responsible and this should be no different, pg&e burned down our houses. >> butt attorneys argue fire victims need more time to file the claims apparently there's a lot of confusion over this, some people thought they couldn't file a claim becaus...