PG&E blamed for California’s Dixie Fire

Published January 5, 2022 7:47pm ET



An energy company may be responsible for the Dixie Fire, which ravaged California for 103 days last year, officials say.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection wrote in a news release on Tuesday that its investigators had determined the Dixie Fire’s origin to be a tree that made contact with “electrical distribution lines.” The lines were owned and operated by the gas company Pacific Gas and Electric, located west of Cresta Dam, California, officials said.

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