@TTT,
From what I understand, and the dozen or more times I have been out there, some of the power lines are in very remote, rural, or hilly/mountainous areas.
Gross miss-management on PG&E side, leading to lack of funds (and then they went bankrupt), and they still cannot afford the upgraded equipment or manpower to implement the upgrades, and maintenance to prevent wildfires.
IIRC, one of the big fires last year was due to a tower that was built in the early 1900s, that needed replaced.
Didn’t happen.
The wildfire did.
