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Posted: 2018-11-14T23:26:00Z | Updated: 2018-11-14T23:26:00Z

Northern Californias Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has once again found itself at the center of both a legal and literal firestorm as customers affected by the regions latest deadly blaze seek to hold the utility accountable.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, attorneys representing two dozen victims of Butte Countys Camp fire the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history say that PG&E is responsible for the blazes destruction because it did not sufficiently maintain its infrastructure or properly inspect power lines.

The lawsuit points to firefighter radio transmissions and paperwork filed by PG&E that indicate a failing transmission line near the PG&E-operated Poe Dam in Pulga, California, appears to have sparked the massive blaze.

The Camp Fire was the result of PG&Es continued practice of prioritizing profits over safety, wherein they failed to properly maintain and inspect their power lines knowing that the likely result was a fire that would pose risk of serious injury and/or death, and damage to property, the lawsuit says.

So far, there are 48 deaths linked to the fire and more than 200 people remain missing.