A Shasta County judge on Wednesday dismissed all criminal charges against Pacific Gas & Electric for its role in the Zogg Fire and the utility will pay $50 million in a civil settlement, KCRA reported.
A Shasta County judge dismissed charges against PG&E for its role in the Zogg Fire, saying that prosecutors failed to present evidence that showed the utility company had committed wrongdoing. The Zogg Fire killed four people and burned 56,000 acres in 2020 after a tree fell on a PG&E power line amid strong winds.
"The People have failed to identify a standard of care … and have failed to establish that any of the various inspections failed to abide by the standard," the judge wrote in his tentative ruling, obtained by KCRA. Therefore, the judge concluded: "Any evidence supporting this hypothetical deviation does not raise to the level of a gross deviation as to make the conduct criminal."
DA Stephanie Bridgett said at the time that she had proof to show that the Zogg Fire started with a tree that PG&E should have removed in 2018, but had been left in place.
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