A Closer Look: PG&E Investigated for Mosquito Fire in Placer County

PG&E may be on the hook for the major fire in Placer County. The Mosquito Fire ignited earlier this month near Oxbow Reservoir and it’s destroyed almost 80 structures, including homes in Placer and El Dorado counties. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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[BookJay]

PG&E has never been on the hook their customers have always paid for all the damages that they've done. There's a damn rate increase every other month just to offset the incompetence and greed of their management not to fix lingering issues and putting profit over the safety of lives.

[v.e.]

PG&E has been so mis-managed for so long, when will they get their shit together? I'm an unwilling customer and their ineptitude and history of poor line maintenance is really galling to me, as I and every other customer end up catching the brunt of their ensuing financial woes through my/our utility bill. smh

[ericiancarr]

They need to break up PG&E into regional companies. My rates just go to stockholders and reimbursing people building homes in dangerous forest locations.

[tonyolo]

they get sued, my bill goes up.
funny how that works.

[siliconvalleymobileevcharging]

*The Most Incompetent Electric Company In The U.S. Hands Down!*

[didamnesia]

We pay 30 cents a kWh, a ripoff, and they still don't trim trees and fix their issues.
In 2021 our voltage was routinely around 125 volts. Costing us about 6% more per year for no reason

[tuber]

Nope. Skinny Italian Newsom will let them off the hook again and make you pay higher rates for electricity. $0.55 / kw here meanwhile it's $0.06 / kw outside of California

[jarrodyuki]

no child porn no sex with minors no illegal drugs and no illegal firearms.

[thomasalundago]

Just keep contributing to gov Newsom campaign you'll be fine

[courtneym]

at what point - AT WHAT POINT - will this company be declared a fucking public hazard?

[fredhorvath]

They have Newsom in their back pocket nothin will happen to them as usual

[squid_fish]

Great 😢 so tired of their ineptness. Neutersome is gonna have to bail them out again.

[marcatteberry]

How many times have you claimed man made climate change as the cause of most of these recent fires?
I had to leave California as a result if your continual claims. I am disabled, and my elderly parents take care of me, and YOU scared them out of their home!
I hope you make lots of money with your continual assault on reality.

[suzyq]

I called it...I even sent in a question to Cal Fire asking why nobody has even mentioned that PGE owns and controls the OXBOW facility. The first aerial photo shows that it started in their equiptment...
BUT NEWSOME is in bed with PGE....remember his BDAY party at the FRENCH LAUNDRY??? PGE was there...their best buddies!!!!
PGE will get a pass...file bankruptcy, and then come back and reem their customers to pay the fines...bank on it!!!!