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In a federal regulatory filing Monday, PG&E says one of its transmission poles has been seized as part of a U.S. Forest Service criminal probe into the Mosquito Fire that began earlier this month east of Foresthill in Placer County.

OAKLAND — A federal agency has launched a criminal probe into the role that PG&E’s equipment might have played in starting California’s largest wildfire of 2022, according to a regulatory filing Monday. The U.S. Forest Service has confiscated a PG&E transmission pole and other equipment that was located in the area where the huge Mosquito Fire erupted in the Sierra Nevada foothills on Sept. 6.

Federal officials have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment as part of an investigation into what caused the Mosquito Fire. The investigation was noted in a PG&E filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

The U.S. Forest Service investigators tasked with determining the cause of the Mosquito Fire have taken possession of PG&E equipment. “The USFS has indicated to Pacific Gas and Electric Company … an initial assessment that the fire started in the area of the utility’s power line on National Forest system lands and that the USFS is performing a criminal investigation into the 2022 Mosquito Fire,” PG&E confirms in a filing to the California Public Utilities Commission.

OAKLAND — A federal agency has launched a criminal probe into the role that PG&E’s equipment might have played in starting California’s largest wildfire of 2022, according to a regulatory filing Monday. The U.S. Forest Service has confiscated a PG&E transmission pole and other equipment that was located in the area where the huge Mosquito Fire erupted in the Sierra Nevada foothills on Sept. 6.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal investigators have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment in a criminal probe into what started a Northern California fire that has become the largest in the state this year, the utility said in a regulatory filing Monday.