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UpInArms

(51,284 posts) Thu Dec 13, 2018, 02:16 PM Dec 2018

PG&E: Bullet holes, damaged lines found near Camp Fire

BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) —
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials say equipment with bullet holes and damaged power lines were found near where the Butte County Camp Fire is believed to have started.

In a letter Tuesday to the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E officials said an employee "observed fire in the vicinity" of one of the company's towers and workers called 911 the morning of Nov. 8 -- the day the wildfire ignited. The fire claimed at least 86 lives and wiped out nearly 14,000 homes, officials said.

Inspectors later found a broken C-hook and a "flash mark" at that same tower, suggesting a power line broke free and made contact with the tower.

Separately, a PG&E employee on Nov. 9 found a “pole and other equipment was on the ground with bullets and bullet holes” at a different location near Flea Mountain.

More at https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/pgande-bullet-holes-damaged-lines-found-near-camp-fire/25562361

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I hope they find whoever did this ... charge them with murder

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PG&E: Bullet holes, damaged lines found near Camp Fire (Original Post) UpInArms Dec 2018 OP

Yikes, how do you damage power lines?? Is this pointing R B Garr Dec 2018 #1

At first reading it looks like PG&E trying to shift the blame. pecosbob Dec 2018 #2

The one time I took the loneliest highway UpInArms Dec 2018 #3

Yup,noticed the same when Wellstone ruled Dec 2018 #4

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)

1. Yikes, how do you damage power lines?? Is this pointing

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 02:59 PM

Dec 2018

to someone who knows those “c-hooks”? Interesting implications here.

pecosbob

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2. At first reading it looks like PG&E trying to shift the blame.

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 03:36 PM

Dec 2018

UpInArms

(51,284 posts)

3. The one time I took the loneliest highway

Reply to pecosbob (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 03:40 PM

Dec 2018

Highway 50 ... I never saw another vehicle ... coming or going ... but every highway sign was mangled with bullet holes

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

4. Yup,noticed the same when

Reply to UpInArms (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 03:51 PM

Dec 2018

we traveled that road.

Stopped for a break at one of the Pull Outs,the ground was littered with shell casings and the Nevada shaped historical marker sign looked like a sieve.

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