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PacifiCorp was grossly negligent in Oregon’s 2020 wildfires. Now it’s asking lawmakers for protection.
Kathleen Becherer, 77, retired in 2014 to the Santiam River Canyon, where she hoped for a life filled with “bees, goats and grandkids.” That dream was incinerated in September 2020. The Santiam Fire, which burned 400,000 acres (almost half the size of …