WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:38.3470000" NOTE recognizability:0.856 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.865 New at 11 PG and E has NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:05.870 --> 00:00:08.229 just released a statement after Cal Fire NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:08.229 --> 00:00:09.958 announced the company is responsible NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:09.958 --> 00:00:11.920 for starting the 2021 Dixie Fire. NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:13.858 The Dixie Fire became the largest NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:13.858 --> 00:00:15.903 single fire in state history and NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:15.903 --> 00:00:17.967 burned for more than three months. NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:17.970 --> 00:00:19.222 It burned nearly 1,000,000 NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:19.222 --> 00:00:21.100 acres and destroyed the town of NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:21.157 --> 00:00:22.669 Greenville in Plumas County. NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:22.670 --> 00:00:24.350 More than 1000 structures were NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:24.350 --> 00:00:25.694 lost in multiple counties, NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:25.700 --> 00:00:28.283 and thousands of evacuees had to wait NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:28.283 --> 00:00:30.739 weeks before they could go back home. NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:30.740 --> 00:00:33.460 Cal Fire now confirms a tree came into NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:33.460 --> 00:00:35.442 contact with a Power Distribution line NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:35.442 --> 00:00:38.488 owned by PG and E at sparked the fire. NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:40.350 The ABC 10 investigative Firepower NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:40.350 --> 00:00:42.570 Money team obtained video of that NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:44.376 tree and audio from the moments NOTE Confidence: 0.85410696 00:00:44.376 --> 00:00:46.580 that Spark was reported for the tree NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:46.580 --> 00:00:47.870 that was online. NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:47.870 --> 00:00:49.590 There's a tree online. NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:49.590 --> 00:00:51.879 Started a fire. NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:53.656 And a tree grew into line, NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:53.660 --> 00:00:56.450 or it fell into the line. NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:56.450 --> 00:00:59.010 No, it felt felt annoyed NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:00:59.010 --> 00:01:01.058 that started the fire. NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:01:01.060 --> 00:01:03.020 Correct? NOTE Confidence: 0.87505037 00:01:03.020 --> 00:01:04.880 No, that started it. Now NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:06.825 they just released this statement NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:06.825 --> 00:01:09.198 saying taking a bold step forward NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:09.198 --> 00:01:11.690 PG and E has committed to bearing NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:11.690 --> 00:01:14.254 10,000 miles of lines in addition to NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:14.254 --> 00:01:16.411 the mitigations included in PG and NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:16.411 --> 00:01:18.266 E's 2021 wildfire mitigation plan. NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:18.270 --> 00:01:19.866 Regardless of today's findings, NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:19.866 --> 00:01:23.021 we will continue to be tenacious in our NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:23.021 --> 00:01:25.464 efforts to stop fire ignitions from our NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:25.464 --> 00:01:27.651 equipment and to ensure that everyone NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:27.651 --> 00:01:30.172 and everything is always safe to read NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:30.172 --> 00:01:32.027 more of our exclusive investigative NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:32.027 --> 00:01:34.210 coverage on the wildfire crisis. NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:34.210 --> 00:01:37.101 M, PG and E's role in it NOTE Confidence: 0.8510711 00:01:37.101 --> 00:01:38.340 head to firepowermoney.com.