Northern California wildfires scorch more than 158,000 acres. PG&E may be partly to blame.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/northern-california-wildfires-scorch-more-than-158000-acres-as-pge-reveals-it-may-have-sparked-the-dixie-fire/
As a series of wildfires — including the state’s first “megafire” of the season — continue to scorch more than 158,000 acres of bone dry forest landscape in Northern California, PG&E revealed that its equipment may have sparked a growing blaze roaring through remote terrain in Butte County.
In a state regulatory filing late Sunday, PG&E said that state fire investigators collected the utility company’s equipment located in the area where the Dixie Fire ignited in the rugged Feather River Canyon.