"No one should have to go through that"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In 2020, the Zogg Fire in Shasta County, Calif., killed four people. Now, the Pacific Gas & Electric company is facing homicide charges. ABC10's Brandon Rittiman shares what happened. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.3	It didn't get done.
0:02.9	The tree fell in the windstorm last September, sparked the Zog fire.
0:07.0	Four people aren't with us anymore because of it.
0:09.1	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:11.4	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:17.4	In 2020, the Zog wildfire in Shasta County, California, burned roughly 56,000 acres, destroyed 204 structures, and killed four people.
0:31.9	If you've got a known hazard that sits for two years, it's just not an accident.
0:36.8	They knew it was there. They left it.
0:39.0	They didn't remove it. And people died. This past September, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company
0:44.7	was charged in connection with the deaths. The federal judge found PG&E contractors marked this
0:50.4	tree as a hazard back in 2018. But the company never followed up to cut it down.
0:56.1	They know that there's a risk.
0:57.6	They know that risk could cause great bodily injury or even death.
1:01.2	And they do it anyway.
1:02.5	They disregard it.
1:03.4	No one should have to go through that.
1:05.4	No one.
1:17.2	Brandon Rittamon joins us from Sacramento, where he's been covering today's case for ABC10.
1:23.5	Brandon, before we get into the criminal case here, tell us a little bit about the Zog Wildfire.
1:24.3	Where was it?
1:25.3	And what happened? Yeah, so the Zogfire burned in the hills above Redding in
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