• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    1·
    6 days ago

    I always assumed it was out of work firefighters needing to feed their families. Capitalism is sure fucked up.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    9 days ago

    I’m not sure about that particular statistic (half of the total number of fires, regardless of size? Half of acres burned?), but utility lines definitely cause a lot of fires. This can be mitigated by burying lines, which IIRC is what San Diego does, but it’s expensive so companies don’t want to do it unless their arms are twisted.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    You read it somewhere, so clearly someone has reported it

    The issues are how do you

    1. Get people to pay attention to those reports and care?
    2. Get those people to vote accordingly?
    3. Get those elected officials to hold the electric companies accountable?
    4. Hold those elected officials accountable when they don’t?
    5. Keep those people engaged and doing points 1-4 consistently so that it doesn’t happen again?
    • DudeWhoYapsTooMuch@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 days ago

      You show the effects of the consequences of how it was reported, blame them and when it’s elected officials, you hold them accountable. The problem is that no one knows how to actually hold people accountable without getting nasty. We need to do what Zohran Mamdani did and put ourselves in the spotlight and do not shy away but keep it clean, and respectful.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    It gets reported and investigated all the time. PG&E, a large power company in California, paid around $14 billion in the court case following the big fires there a few years ago.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 days ago

    Californians know that the electrical company transmission lines are neglected. It was reported heavily.