FILE: A home lies in ruins in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, one of the areas hardest hit during the 2017 Tubbs Fire. (Photo by Benjamin Cosse/California National Guard)

Pacific Gas and Electric has reached a widespread settlement with victims of recent Northern California wildfires including the 2017 North Bay fires, company officials announced.

The settlement amounts to $13.5 billion and settles all claims from the 2018 Camp Fire, the 2017 Tubbs Fire and the 2015 Butte Fire.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.