One of California’s largest utilities is to pay the US Forest Service $82.5 million for a wildfire that burned tens of thousands of acres (hectares) of woodland, the government said Friday.
The 2020 Bobcat Fire destroyed dozens of buildings as it tore through the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles.
The US government said Southern California Edison had not properly controlled vegetation near its power lines and the blaze erupted when trees touched a live wire…