PG&E Charged In Zogg Wildfire Last Year That Killed 4

REDDING, Calif. (CBS13/AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric was charged Friday with manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Zogg Fire last year that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes, prosecutors said. 

It is the latest action against the nation’s largest utility, which pleaded guilty last year to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in a 2018 blaze ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid that nearly destroyed the town of Paradise and became the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century.

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