California IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : State Bills PG&E; for Firefighting Cost
Saying taxpayers shouldn’t have to pick up the multimillion-dollar tab, the state handed a utility the largest bill yet for a wildfire that officials claim was sparked last year by a power line. State Department of Forestry spokeswoman Karen Terrill said Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been billed about $8.2 million for the costs of fighting and investigating a fire that burned more than 120,000 acres in Tehama County in August, 1990.
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