Environmental
Sep. 19, 2012
Prosecutors reach settlement with utility over wildfire
The U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of California announced Monday it reached a $6.4 million settlement with San Diego Gas & Electric Co. over a 2007 fire that burned more than 44,000 acres.
By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of California announced Monday it reached a $6.4 million settlement with San Diego Gas & Electric Co. over a 2007 fire that burned more than 44,000 acres of the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County. The fire, which started after some of the utility's high voltage wires malfunctioned in high winds, was one of the largest in state history and took three weeks to extinguish, a...
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