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US judge weighs if PG&E violated probation with 2019 fire

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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, flames from the Kincade Fire consume Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. A California prosecutor has charged troubled Pacific Gas & Electric with starting a 2019 wildfire. District Judge William Alsup overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric's criminal probation is holding a hearing Tuesday, May 4, 2021, to consider whether Pacific Gas & Electric violated its criminal probation from a fatal 2010 natural gas explosion by sparking the October 2019 Kincade Fire north of San Francisco.(AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
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Posted at 10:51 AM, May 05, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-05 13:51:59-04

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge is weighing whether Pacific Gas & Electric violated its criminal probation by sparking a wildfire north of San Francisco.

The fire destroyed more than 100 homes and injured six firefighters in October 2019.

Prosecutors and attorneys for PG&E appeared at a hearing Tuesday before U.S. District Judge William Alsup.

The hearing came a month after the Sonoma County district attorney charged the company with five felony and 28 misdemeanor counts in the fire.

PG&E has accepted investigators’ findings that its transmission line ignited the fire. But it has denied committing any crimes.

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