California homeowners are repeating their past wildfire mistakes

By Leslie Kaufman, Bloomberg
On Oct. 8, 2017, sparks from private electric equipment set fire to the dry hills of Northern California’s wine country, but it was only once the flames jumped from the grasslands to densely packed Santa Rosa that the destruction intensified.
By the time the Tubbs Fire was fully contained, it had consumed some 5,600 buildings, making it the most destructive in California history.
A year later, transmission lines owned by PG&E Corp. ignited brush in rural Bu