responsibility has at times turned ugly. things are being thrown at folks. people are lives have been threatened. reporter: more and more people a i don t say the state are living in wild areas that are also high-risk fire zones called the wild land urban interface. in 2012, about 15% of our service area, which is 70,000 square miles, was considered extreme or elevated fire threat. this year as of 2019, more than 50% of our service area is in that elevated or extreme wildfire threat. reporter: after the deadly fires in 2018, the company filed for bankruptcy. citing debt in excess of $50 billion. making the challenge of improving fire safety in a state battling climate change that much more daunting. it s not all pg&e s fault. state of california should have been cleaning this out a long time ago instead of waiting till hill breaks loose and then blame it on pg&e. reporter: pg&e calls this
gas & electric. this is not from my perspective a climate-change story as much as a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades. reporter: while recent investigations have found the company s equipment likely responsible for starting nearly 2,000 fires in the last five years, the search for responsibility has at times turned ugly. things are being thrown at folks. people s lives have been threatened. reporter: more and more people across the state are living in wild areas that are also high-risk fire zones called the wildland urban interface. in 2012 about 15% of our service area, which is 70,000 square miles, was considered extreme or elevated fire threat. the sierras of 2019, more than 50% of our service area is in that elevated or extreme wildfire threat. reporter: after the deadly fires in 2018 the company filed for bankruptcy, citing debt in excess of $50 billion, making the challenge of improving fire
everything goes. everybody everybody tells me he is doing a fantastic job. in little more than one hour s time whitaker is going to speak here at the joint terrorism task force headquarters on the subject of national security. jon. jon: thank you. sandra: fox news alert. a major recall of romaine lettuce in effect across the country. we don t know exactly where this product was grown is one or we re seeing the tip of the iceberg of ill people. the number of ill people may well grow substantially. sandra: what you need to know to keep your family safe. we ll have a report, a live report coming up on this next. jon: also heavy rains could spark another disaster in hard-hit california bringing the threat of flooding and mudslides to the fire zones. more on that next. we didn t know for four or
said, california forests are reaching breaking point. the agency then recommended prescribed burns and forest clearing. but environmental regulations like the endangered species about and national environmental policy acts have made it very difficult for the forest service to remove dead fuel, though it appears the tide is changing. even california governor jerry brown, who has called the president s criticism of forest management uninformed, said this when he toured the fire zones. watch. going forward we re going to have to take a lot of steps that aren t so easy. we re going to have to manage our forests better, we ll have to build our cities more smartly. in other words, build them further away from the forest lan and while governor brown is now stating the obvious president trump indicated to chris wallace he might also be open to other opinions. listen. climate change, that it s drier, it s hotter, and that s
forests are enormous fuel driven tinder boxes. the leland hoover commission and independent california oversight agency said, quote, california forests are reaching a breaking point. environmental regulations like the endangered species act, difficult for the forest service. the tide is changing, jerry brown, president s criticism, quote, uninformed, said this when he toward the fire zones. we have to take a lot of steps that are not so easy and manage our forests better, build our cities more smartly. reporter: governor brown is stating the obvious, donald trump indicated to chris wallace he might open to other opinions. it is drier, hotter and that