«Breaking News» Utility workers say they found a bullet-riddled power pole near where Camp Fire started

A Northern California utility has said its workers found a bullet-riddled power pole,  downed tree branches and damaged towers at sites where the Camp Fire wildfire is believed to have started. 

Pacific Gas & Electric told regulators in a letter on Tuesday the utility had a transmission line outage near the town of Pulga in Butte County around 6am on November 8 - the day California's most deadly and destructive wildfire started.

Shortly after the outage, a PG&E employee called 911 at 6.15am to report seeing flames around the tower. Camp Fire started at 6.33am that day in that same area, according to officials.

When inspectors went out to investigate the outage site, they found a broken hook and a 'flash mark' on a high-voltage tower, suggesting a power line broke free and made contact with the tower, the letter states. 

At another location a few miles away in Concow, workers found a fallen power pole riddled with bullet holes after responding to an outage at 6.45am also on November 8. Several days later in this area, workers found fallen tree branches covering wires. 

PG&E made the revelations in a letter to California Public Utilities Commission, as it faces lawsuits alleging its equipment started Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed at least 86 people.

Pacific Gas & Electric on Tuesday told regulators in a letter that the utility had a transmission line outage near the town of Pulga in Butte County around 6am on November 8 - the day California's most deadly and destructive wildfire started

PG&E made the revelations in a letter to California Public Utilities Commission, as it faces lawsuits alleging that its equipment started the fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed at least 86 people

PG&E said when workers were sent out to inspect the site where flames were seen in Pulga, they found a broken hook, and pieces of a suspension insulator and a transposition jumper, according to the letter. 

The equipment had become separated from an arm of the tower and was left hanging, PG&E's letter states.

At a separate site in Concow, workers investigating an outage that occurred around 6.45am found a pole on the ground 'with bullets and bullet holes at the break point of the pole and on the equipment,' according to the letter.

Workers also found tree branches on top of power lines. 

The finding of bullet holes in PG&E equipment and felled tree branches could limit the utility's liability in lawsuits. 

The finding of bullet holes in PG&E equipment and felled tree branches could limit the utility's liability in lawsuits 

'These incidents remain under investigation, and this information is preliminary,' Meredith E. Allen, senior director of Regulatory Relations of PG&E, said in the letter. 

She added: 'The cause of these incidents has not been determined and may not be fully understood until additional information becomes available, including information that can only be obtained through examination and testing of the equipment retained by CAL FIRE.' 

Official investigators have not determined what caused the wildfire yet. 

A growing number of fire victims have filed lawsuits alleging that PG&E's equipment started the fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed at least 86 people.

The cleanup costs for last month's fires will far surpass the record expense of $1.3 billion the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers spent on debris removal in Northern California in 2017. 

So far, around $7 billion in insurance claims were made due to Camp Fire.  

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