The fire in Northern California may have been caused by a faulty transmission line that the electric company was trying to repair as soon as it could get permission to enter the private land where the problem had occurred.

It appears that PG&E was not ignoring the problem. I suspect it was following its established procedures for dealing with such problems, in accord with the facts it had at the time. Perhaps those procedures need to be updated, due to global heating, to treat all transmission-line problems more urgently. But all this doesn't necessarily mean negligence.

The name "camp fire" seems silly, and there seems to be no particular sense in it, so I would rather not use it.