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California fire victims face deadline on filing claims

By DAISY NGUYEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with then California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom during a visit to a neighborhood destroyed by the wildfires in Paradise, Calif. Gov. Newsom is wrapping up a first year highlighted by the bankruptcy of the country's largest utility, an escalating homelessness crisis and an intensifying feud with the Trump administration, along with record-low unemployment and a booming state economy producing a multi-billion-dollar surplus. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

California’s Gov. Newsom had ‘baptism by fire’ in 1st year

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric worker walks in front of a truck in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge OKs nearly $25 billion for PG&E fire victims, insurers

By Michael Liedtke - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2018 file photo, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric crews work to restore power lines in Paradise, Calif. Pacific Gas and Electric says it has reached a $13.5 billion settlement that will resolve all major claims related to devastating wildfires blamed on its outdated equipment and negligence. The settlement, which the utility says was reached Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, still requires court approval. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California governor rejects $13.5 billion PG&E settlement

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2019, file photo, Pacific Gas and Electric Company workers bury utility lines in Paradise, Calif. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric officials urged a federal bankruptcy judge to approve an insurance settlement that would enable the nation's largest utility to regain its financial footing while covering at least $20 billion in losses stemming from catastrophic wildfires tied to its equipment and negligence. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

PG&E urges judge to approve key settlement, faces resistance

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019, file photo, smoke from the Maria Fire billows above Santa Paula, Calif. The nation's largest utility says its distribution lines have sparked no damaging wildfires since it began repeatedly shutting off power to hundreds of thousands of Northern California customers this fall. But Pacific Gas &amp; Electric is not ruling out that failed transmission equipment may have started a fire north of San Francisco that damaged or destroyed more than 400 structures. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

PG&E says blackouts limited fires despite 1 likely failure

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Judge keeps California law on utilities paying fire damages

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

A shopper looks at extension cords at B&amp;C Ace hardware store, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, in Grass Valley, Calif., in preparation of the planned Pacific Gas &amp; Electric power shutdown scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)

PG&E restores power to thousands in California

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

The Latest: PG&E to cut power to 375,000 people

Associated Press

Grass Valley's Dionicio Torres looks at the gas can selection before taking the last 5-gallon gas can on the shelves at B&amp;C Ace Home &amp; Garden Center, in Grass Valley, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, in preparation of Wednesday's planned public safety power shutdown. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)

PG&E to shut off power to 375,000 people

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric worker walks in front of a truck in San Francisco. California’s Pacific Gas &amp; Electric is faced regularly with a no-win choice between risking the start of a deadly wildfire or immiserating millions of paying customers by shutting off the power. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California crisis of fires, blackouts decades in the making

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric worker walks in front of a truck in San Francisco. California’s Pacific Gas &amp; Electric is faced regularly with a no-win choice between risking the start of a deadly wildfire or immiserating millions of paying customers by shutting off the power. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California faces fraught path out of wildfire, power crisis

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press

Beer insulting California utility PG&E brews backlash

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2015 file photo, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmates stand guard as flames from the Butte Fire approach a containment line near San Andreas, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is stepping up pressure on Pacific Gas and Electric to fork over billions more in cash to pay thousands of people whose homes burned in wildfires that drove the utility into bankruptcy. The rising tensions were expected to surface at a hearing Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, that has been abruptly postponed by a week. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

PG&E faces potential showdown over its bankruptcy plan

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

PG&E agrees to extend deadline for wildfire damage claims

By DAISY NGUYEN - Associated Press

File - In this Oct. 9, 2019, file photo, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric and CalTrans workers stand near the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to speed up the troubled Pacific Gas &amp; Electric bankruptcy case so the company can be restructured in time for next year's wildfire season. Newsom announced Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, he is calling a meeting of wildfire victims and PG&amp;E executives, shareholders and creditors next week to accelerate what Newsom called &quot;a consensual resolution&quot; to the bankruptcy case. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Gavin Newsom, Calif. governor, threatens possible PG&E takeover if no plan is made

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

The wildfire in Northern California has destroyed dozens of structures. Millions are facing power outages too, as the utility wants to avoid sparking more wildfires.
A structure lost to a wildfire called the Kincade Fire is seen in Windsor, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (Guy Wathen/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Californians grappling with rolling blackouts, large wildfires

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Customers charge their electronic devices at Starbuck's coffee shop on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Lafayette, Calif. A large part of Lafayette has been without power. PG&amp;E said Monday its power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area despite widespread blackouts meant to prevent fires from igniting during dangerously windy weather. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Frustration at utility rising as California blackouts endure

By Don Thompson and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with reporters in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. With hundreds of thousands of Californians again in the dark amid high wildfire danger Thursday, Newsom had a message for voters: &quot;I own this.&quot; Newsom again blistered California's utilities, most notably Pacific Gas &amp; Electric, for failures to modernize electrical systems that have led to the need to shut off power to avoid wildfires. But he also went further in personalizing the crisis. &quot;It's on me to make sure this doesn't happen again.&quot; (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

California governor “owns” blackouts, takes political risk

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

Firefighters watch as a helicopter drops water in a wildfire in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)

Blackout Round 2? Californians brace for possible outage

By JOCELYN GECKER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press