“As the supervising district judge, however, I must acknowledge failure.”Īlsup declined an interview request from The Associated Press to elaborate on his concerns about PG&E.
“We have tried hard to rehabilitate PG&E,” Alsup wrote. District Judge William Alsup wrote in a report last week reviewing his oversight of the utility. “In these five years, PG&E has gone on a crime spree and will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California,” U.S. Those include several in the North Bay in 20 Camp Fire in Butte County that nearly wiped out the town of Paradise and nearby communities the 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma County the 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County, which killed four people and last year's Dixie Fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres of northern Sierra Nevada forest.Īll told, fires the company started while on probation have killed 111 people.
