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        "title": "Huge Texas blaze shows power-line fires are a widespread threat",
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        "summary": "The state forest service reported power lines sparked the Smokehouse Creek and Windy Deuce fires.",
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        "byline": "Josh Saul and David R. Baker",
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        "prettyDate": "August 23, 2022",
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        "summary": "Meteorologists are describing the flooding as a 'once-in-200-years' event.",
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        "prettyDate": "April 30, 2020",
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        "summary": "The COVID-19 pandemic complicates preparations for blazes that arrive with vengeance every year.",
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        "uri": "/2019/10/24/big-blaze-breaks-out-as-half-a-million-californians-go-dark/",
        "title": "Big blaze breaks out as half a million Californians go dark",
        "byline": "Mark Chediak, David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan",
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        "prettyDate": "October 24, 2019",
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        "summary": "A major blaze erupted north of San Francisco as PG&E cuts power to 178,000 homes and businesses.",
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        "title": "Hundreds of thousands PG&E customers face yet another blackout",
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        "prettyDate": "October 22, 2019",
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        "summary": "The utility giant is considering another outage to keep its power lines from igniting catastrophic wildfires.",
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        "prettyDate": "October 09, 2019",
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        "summary": "PG&E Corp. has cut power to 513,000 customers in the biggest planned blackout yet to keep power lines from sparking more blazes.",
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        "uri": "/2019/06/19/pge-reaches-1b-wildfire-settlement-with-local-agencies/",
        "title": "PG&E reaches $1B wildfire settlement with local agencies",
        "byline": "David R. Baker and Mark Chediak",
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        "prettyDate": "June 19, 2019",
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        "summary": "The settlement comes as the California utility giant works through its bankruptcy — the largest of its kind in U.S. history.",
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        "prettyDate": "March 25, 2019",
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        "summary": "If recent history is any guide, this year's wildfire season could be grim, despite a new push to keep flames at bay.",
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        "prettyDate": "January 08, 2019",
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        "summary": "PG&E's travails are tied to the role its power lines may have played in fires that killed dozens of people.",
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        "uri": "/2018/11/28/pge-chose-not-to-cut-power-as-winds-raged-before-fatal-wildfire/",
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        "byline": "David R. Baker and Mark Chediak",
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        "prettyDate": "November 28, 2018",
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        "summary": "The giant utility made its final decision not to cut electricity more than six hours after the Camp Fire began on Nov. 8.",
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