PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter in 2018's devastating Camp Fire.
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"This was a historic moment, and hopefully a historic moment for corporate America — to know that prosecutors wherever will not allow them to get away with recklessly endangering the lives of the citizens that they serve," Ramsey said. On the day of the fire, a hook broke and sent a power line onto the structure where there was electric arcing that sent sparks onto brush and grass below. Ramsey said when line fell and arced onto the structure, between 5,000 and more than 10,000 degrees of heat was generated. Molten metal was thrown onto ground amid a historic drought and 40 mph winds.PG&E is approaching the end of a complicated bankruptcy case that it used to work out $25.
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