California utility PG&E pleads guilty to 84 wildfire deaths – By BBC News Staff (BBC) / June 16 2020
A California utility has pleaded guilty to the deaths of 84 people in a wildfire, the deadliest US corporate crime ever successfully prosecuted.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) admitted the 2018 Camp Fire, the state’s deadliest and most destructive, was caused by its faulty equipment.
In the court hearing, a judge read the name of each victim aloud to the company chief executive.
The company will be fined millions of dollars, but no-one will go to jail.
Many of the Camp Fire’s victims were elderly or disabled.
A number of them were found in burnt-out cars, killed as they attempted to flee the blaze with their family and neighbours.
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