PacifiCorp will pay $178M to Oregon wildfire victims in latest settlement over deadly 2020 blazes

FILE – Chairs stand at the Gates Post Office in the aftermath of a fire in Gates, Oregon, September 9, 2020. The post office was destroyed along with several other buildings in the Santiam Canyon community as a result of the Santiam Fire. Pacific Power, owned by PacifiCorp, said Monday, June 3, 2024, that it has agreed to a nearly $180 million settlement with more than 400 Oregon plaintiffs who sued the utility after the deadly 2020 wildfires. (Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat- Herald via AP, File)