SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State regulators said Wednesday they plan to impose a $155.4 million fine against PG&E Corp. over the Zogg fire, which killed four people in rural Shasta County two years ago.
In announcing the penalties against California’s largest utility, the California Public Utilities Commission said PG&E bears responsibility for a fire that started when a power line was struck by a gray pine tree with “significant obvious flaws that should have been apparent to anybody conducting a visual inspection.”
PG&E is already under criminal indictment in the fire, which began Sept. 27 near the town of Igo, west of Redding. The company has pleaded innocent to manslaughter and other charges. The fire burned 56,388 acres.
