California''s PGE Admits Their Equipment May Have Started Yet Another Wildfire California''s PGE Admits Their Equipment May Have Started Yet Another Wildfire Pacific Gas Electric admitted in recently filed documents that their equipment may have started yet another California wildfire . Firefighters spray water from Union Pacific Railroad''s fire train while battling the Dixie Fire in Plumas National Forest, Calif., on Friday, July 16, 2021. (AP Photo|Noah Berger) Noah Berger AP In Monday documents filed with the California Public Utilities Commission, PGE reported that a worker responding to a circuit outage at 7 a.m. on July 13 noticed blown fuses in a conductor on top of a pole, a tree leaning into the conductor, and a fire at the base of the tree . The ensuing Dixie fire in Feather River Canyon has burned 30,074 acres and is 15% contained. An air tanker drops fire retardant to battle the Dixie Fire on Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon in Plumas County on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. The fire started near the origin of 2018s deadly Camp Fire. Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com The report, posted to the PGE website , says that due to challenging terrain and road work resulting in a bridge closure, the worker could not reach the pole with the blown fuse until around 4:40 p.m. that day.