Burned by Greed

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How does multibillion-dollar company Pacific Gas and Electric comes to repeatedly kill its customers? By putting profits over safety, critics allege. (Original television broadcast: 07-05-2021) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0	This is the American Greek podcast presented by CNBC, I'm Stacey Keach.
0:07.0	In this episode of American Greed, in California, a convicted criminal is wreaking havoc,
0:15.0	blowing up neighborhoods.
0:18.0	Multiple searches on fire and we have a fireball.
0:22.0	Burning entire towns.
0:28.0	Claiming the lives of more than 100 people.
0:31.0	Who is that criminal?
0:33.0	The state's powerful utility, Pacific gas and electric, PG&E.
0:40.0	How does one company get so much so wrong over and over?
0:45.0	From the shocking evidence of neglect to the wrenching stories of survivors.
0:51.0	Fire comes filling up the whole house.
0:53.0	I'm like melting alive.
0:55.0	It's over.
0:56.0	To the inside account of a long time employee.
0:59.0	Had I followed my supervisor's instructions, it could have killed the members of that household.
1:05.0	American Greed digs deep into the deadly crimes of a company that kills.
1:26.0	On the morning of November 8, 2018, in the small town of Magalia, California,
1:32.0	Skye's side to its life is about to be upended.
1:37.0	The day begins with alarming news from her father.
1:41.0	I woke to him knocking on my door loudly and saying, Skye, get up.
1:49.0	There's fire coming up over the ridge and I just shot out of bed.
1:53.0	This is no small fire.
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