Pacific Gas and Electric agreed to plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of unlawfully causing a fire in a settlement reached with the Butte County, Calif., district attorney, resolving all state charges related to the 2018 Camp Fire that killed more than 80 and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes.
The San Francisco utility filed the settlement in U.S. bankruptcy court in that city on March 23. The court and the the Butte County Municipal Court must approve the deal.