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Newsom's administration also faces grave issues surrounding wildfires, which can be traced back to a history of negligence by utility companies such as PG&E. Notably, PG&E's equipment was implicated in the Camp Fire of 2018, which left 85 dead and devastated the town of Paradise, California. Following this disaster, Newsom's administration provided a bailout to PG&E and enacted legislation that appears to protect utility companies from accountability.