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adequate maintenance is partly ame, courts have found. According The New York Times, PG&E's electrical network - which serves approximately 16 million people in Central and Northern California - has been linked to multiple destructive fires, and regulators have determined that the company "violated state law or could have done more to make its equipment safer" in several
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Power grids have also expanded to accommodate growing communities in the state, creating more opportunity for disaster. Keeley emphasized that California's population has grown by 6 million since the year 2000.
"That 6 million increase in population means more people pushed out into areas of urban sprawl, of dangerous fuels, increased ignition sources, increased potential for people getting killed, an increase in the electric grid," Keeley said. "So if there's anything that can explain the increase in fires in the last 20 years, my feeling is it's population growth."
In addition to infrastructural issues like power grids, mitigating human error on an individual level is key to preventing future disaster. That's why one of CalFire's goals is to educate as many Californians as possible about how wildfires work, what causes them and the fact that they can affect communities in any part of the state - urban, rural or anything in between.
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How does the tone at the end of the video compare to the tone of the end of the article?
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Unlike the article, the tone of the
• video is optimistic as it offers human solutions to wildfires.
Like the article, the tone of the
• video is hopeful as it presents changes to the utility company.
Like the article, the tone of the video is reserved as it questions the human impact on the environment.
Unlike the article, the tone of the
• video is angry as it places blame on the utility company.

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Based on the options provided, the most accurate comparison would likely be:

Like the article, the tone of the video is reserved as it questions the human impact on the environment.

This option suggests that both the article and the video approach the topic with a critical perspective, focusing on the implications of human actions and the systemic issues contributing to the wildfires instead of presenting overly optimistic or angry sentiments.