PG&E Agrees to Pay $55 Million to Settle Criminal Cases Related to Kincade, Dixie Fires

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In 2019 a PG&E volt transmission line failed, starting the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, and two years later, PG&E power lines sparked what became the Dixie Fire, the largest wildfire in California’s history. On Monday, the utility company reached a settlement of $55 million which allows it to escape criminal liability stemming from those fires. We’ll talk with Marketplace reporter Lily Jamali about the settlement and where the money will go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	From KQED. San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
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1:18.0	Valley, batches of genetically modified mosquitoes will be released into the wild.
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1:34.3	But first, we'll get an update from Lily Jamali about the latest PG&E settlement over
1:38.7	wildfires.
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2:05.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. There's a new PG&E settlement. This one reached with district attorneys in the North Bay. The $55 million that PG&E will pay victims and community groups
2:10.9	will settle the criminal case that the company faced for its role in the Dixie and Kincaid fires.
2:17.0	Here to explain the new settlement, we've got
2:19.2	former KQED staffer now star marketplace reporter Lily Jamali. Welcome back, Lily.
2:25.1	What an introduction. Thanks, Alexis. So I gave the barest details, but tell us about what's in
2:32.6	this settlement that's been reached.
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