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Bradley W. Parks/OPBIn its appeal filed Tuesday, PacifiCorp argued that thousands of people and businesses across the state should have never been grouped together into a class-action certification. The company also contends there is no proof showing it is at fault for causing fires across multiple regions, including in Santiam Canyon, Southern Oregon and the coast. -
Bradley W. Parks/OPBThe Oregon Department of Forestry report comes five years after the 2020 fire, as PacifiCorp pushes for legislation that would limit utilities' wildfire liabilities.
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State officials have spent or accounted for a $150 million wildfire recovery program from the Legislature though survivors of the fires are far from whole. -
Three years after the 2020 fires devastated communities in Southern Oregon, survivors are still recovering from the fires' impact on their homes, their stability and their mental health. A local long-term recovery group is helping support residents who've experienced trauma. -
Oregon's state housing agency did not say when the homes will be rebuilt, where the funding will come from or when residents will be able to move in. -
State report makes recommendations to prepare Oregon for the next big wildfire or other disaster. -
Wildfire victims and their advocates say the PacifiCorp ruling is a lifeline after nearly three years without enough insurance money, emergency funding or government support for people who lost everything and are struggling to start over. -
As the climate warms, the risks of major wildfires are growing, and PacifiCorp is not the only utility to face blame for their role in sparking them. -
In a filing Thursday with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, PacifiCorp asked its regulators to allow it to defer any costs related to wildfire liability through June 2024. That would allow the company the option to add those costs to customer rates in the future. -
Two days after jurors in Multnomah County found that the utility PacifiCorp was to blame for wildfires in 2020, they ordered the company to pay punitive damages. -
Long after the smoke has cleared in Happy Camp, California, school staff, students and families are grappling with trauma, uncertainty and a dire housing shortage that鈥檚 left many to suffer from long-term homelessness. -
Oregon鈥檚 second-largest electrical utility, PacifiCorp, played a significant role in the Labor Day wildfires that ravaged parts of the state in 2020, according to a Multnomah County jury. -
The defense follows several weeks of plaintiffs' attorneys alleging that PacifiCorp acted negligently by keeping its lines energized during the Labor Day fires. -
Expert witnesses say the electric utility suffered from a lack of leadership during the 2020 fires.
