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Handel On The Law

California Wildfire Legal Issues

Handel On The Law

KFI AM 640

News

2.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

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0:00.0

This is Handel on the Law, Marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

0:08.4

As I have mentioned a little earlier, I'm going to do this for several weeks, if not months,

0:14.4

is talk about the legal spins on the California wildfires.

0:20.2

And there were two particularly dangerous ones.

0:22.6

Actually, there were three, but two were decimating.

0:24.6

The one in Altadena, the Eaton Fire, which killed 17 people, and the Palisades fire.

0:30.6

That was in Pacific Palisades.

0:32.6

Ten thousand homes were destroyed in businesses, and, you know you know how many 28 29 people ended up dying

0:41.1

it is it was horrible and you can imagine 10,000 businesses homes structures burnt to the ground

0:50.0

well it didn't take long for the lawsuits to start flying because one of the allegations of how it started was a power line from PG&E, Pacific Gas and Electric, the power company that supplies power in that area.

1:04.5

One of their power lines fell because of the huge winds and ignited the fire near the base of the power line.

1:13.0

And they've been nailed before PG&E. As a matter of fact, they were criminally charged

1:19.5

for what happened up north where they also supply power and pled guilty. Corporations are very

1:25.9

rarely criminally charged. Corporations can be held guilty of crimes.

1:30.3

Now, does anybody go to jail? Of course not, because corporations can't go to jail.

1:34.3

But PG and he's been, and they had to pay billions of dollars. Same thing here.

1:38.3

So the lawsuits hit.

1:40.3

And the first thing that one of the lawyers does on behalf of one of the victims.

1:45.2

And we don't even know the investigation isn't complete as to what started it, who started it,

1:50.8

is asked for a restraining order against, oh, this is Southern California Edison.

1:55.5

I'm sorry, not P&G.

1:56.9

Southern California Edison is down here in Southern California.

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