"State Sen. Jerry Hill, who has pushed to reform PG&E ever since the San Bruno blast, warned that he will try to break up the utility if its negligence caused the fires. The fires have displaced tens of thousands of people, killed at least 41 and incinerated entire neighborhoods of Santa Rosa.
If we find that in this particular case — and we don’t know the cause yet — then frankly I don’t think PG&E should do business in California anymore,” said Hill, D-San Mateo. “They’ve crossed the line too many times. They need to be dissolved in some way, split.”
The utility’s CEO, Geisha Williams, said in an interview Tuesday that she can’t spend time thinking about that scenario. The utility has 4,300 people restoring electricity and natural gas service across the North Bay, where more than a third of a million customers lost power in the past 10 days. Forty-four PG&E employees or retirees lost their homes to the flames.
“I am so focused on responding right now to the outages, restoring power and gas, helping Cal Fire, helping our community rebuild — it’s too early to focus on that,” Williams said.
The fires, she said, also point to a larger threat — a warming world."
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