PG&E Corp. yesterday sought court approval for a $105 million fund to help house victims of the wildfires blamed on the bankrupt California power provider, Reuters reported. PG&E in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco said the fund would cover housing and other urgent needs for many who lost homes in the wildfires in 2017 and 2018. The biggest of the blazes, last year’s Camp Fire, killed more than 80 people and destroyed more than 14,600 housing units, with more than 11,300 lost in the town Paradise, according the California’s Department of Finance. The department said in a report yesterday that the Camp Fire displaced 83 percent of Paradise’s population, contributing to an increase of more than 19,000 people in the population of nearby Chico, which marked the largest numeric population change of any California city last year.
