The Daily Populous Monday July 26th, 2021 day edition
Authored by pbs.org and submitted by Exastiken

Unfortunately, so many of them simply have not had the resources to move on. Even now that we're approaching, three years later, we're seeing situations where a number of people that I've personally met and correspond with all the time are still living in trailers and campers, really in temporary conditions.

And when you see temperatures reach the triple digits, which they often do in that part of California, in that region we call the north state, it's really uncomfortable physically to have to endure that in a trailer and not to mention just having their lives be thrown into this limbo that is just continued on and on. I mean, we talk to people that are concerned about where their kids are going to go to school next year. T

hey don't know, because if they're one of the lucky few that have gotten any compensation from this trust, they simply have they don't have enough to rebuild because of the way I laid out sort of the way this trust was set up in the first place where you have part cash and part stock in the company, that means that those people that have had their claims process, these fire victims, they were only getting 30 percent of what the trust has determined that they are owed. They don't want to run out of money. They're kind of leaving this buffer in just in case the stock goes down to zero, which is technically possible. We're seeing it suffer right now because we're now at the beginning of fire season.

But 30 percent on let's call it a $250,000 claim is just not enough to rebuild a house that might have been worth that when they bought it in the '70s or the '80s. We're seeing labor costs skyrocketing. The cost of materials have gone through the roof. So everybody is thrown in limbo. And a lot of these folks were retirees who are now eating into their life savings, renting a house while they basically wait for that check to come in the mail.

James_mcgill_esquire on July 26th, 2021 at 03:40 UTC »

PG&E killed 84 people, got a Stern talking-to, and will never hold up their end of the bargain. It's cheaper for them not to.

Meanwhile the couple who started the fire with the gender reveal party been indicted on a slew of charges and will likely see prison time.

imbignate on July 26th, 2021 at 02:22 UTC »

Not surprised at all. My FIL lost everything in the Camp Fire in Paradise California a few years back. Every couple of months we get another list of forms, letters, statements, lists, etc, that the lawyers need to resolve the claims. It's infuriating but there's nothing else we can do.

PaulBlartmallcop12 on July 25th, 2021 at 22:16 UTC »

Oh, the people are getting fucked?

But this is America