PacifiCorp, a utility owned by Berkshire Hathaway, agreed to pay $575 million to resolve U.S. government damages claims related to six wildfires in Oregon and California that burned nearly 290,000 acres of federal land, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.
The settlement resolves claims that PacifiCorp’s electrical lines negligently started the fires.
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Five of the fires – Archie Creek, Echo Mountain Complex, Slater, South Obenchain and 242 – began during Labor Day weekend in 2020 and burned approximately 250,000 acres of federal