More Wine Country Wildfire Victims File Suits Against PG&E

All it took Lars and Ulla Tandrup was a single glance at the blazing facade of their Quietwater Ridge home early Oct. 9 to realize they couldn’t reach their cars and would have to run for their lives. Lars Tandrup grabbed his cellphone and 9-month-old Labradoodle, Obi, and he and his wife dashed out the door in their pajamas. By the time they’d run the three-quarters of a mile to Mark West Springs Road and flagged down passing cars, both were badly burned. Now, they are among 107 people who have filed nine separate complaints alleging Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s poor maintenance of its high-voltage lines caused the Sonoma County fires that destroyed almost 7,000 homes and killed 43 people.