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BAKER 

&

HOSTETLER LLP

ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO 

EXHIBIT A

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GOUGH & HANCOCK LLP

649 Mission Street, Suite 460, San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 898-8900

Via Email

November 18, 2015

Re: PG&E’s Offer of Assistance to Address Urgent Needs

Dear Counsel:

We are writing to let you know that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is offering to 

assist eligible residents who have been displaced or otherwise impacted by the Butte Fire and are 

in urgent need of financial assistance to cover immediate needs, including temporary housing, 

vehicle rental, or replacement of household items, and do not have insurance. PG&E is making 

up to $50,000 available to each uninsured property owner who resided at a damaged or destroyed 

property at the time of the fire, and up to $10,000 for uninsured renters who occupied such a 

property at the time of the fire to be used for temporary housing, vehicle rental, content 

replacement or other immediate financial needs.

Eric Ratinoff

Eric Ratinoff Law Corp.

401 Watt Avenue

Sacramento, CA 95864

Steven Airola

Airola & Airola

550 E. St. Charles Street

San Andreas, CA 95249

Robert W. Jackson

Jackson & Parkinson, Trial 

Lawyers

205 West Alvarado Street

Fallbrook, CA 92028

John Airola

Airola Law Offices

2399 American River Dr., Ste. 2

Sacramento, CA 95825

John Gomez

Gomez Trial Attorneys

655 West Broadway, Ste. 1700

San Diego, CA 92101

Scott Summy

Baron & Budd P.C.

3102 Oak Lawn Ave. 

Ste. 1100

Dallas, Tx 75219

Amanda Riddle

Corey, Luzaich, de Ghetaldi, 

Nastari & Riddle LLP

700 El Camino Real

P.O. Box 669

Milbrae, CA 94030

Michael Danko

Danko Meredith

333 Twin Dolphin Dr., Ste. 145

Redwood Shores, CA 94065

Gerald Singleton

Singleton Law Firm APC

115 West Plaza Street

Solana Beach, CA 92075

E. Elliot Adler

Adler Law Group APLC

402 W. Broadway Ste. 860

San Diego, CA 92101

Geoffrey Spreter

Spreter Law Firm APC

402 W. Broadway, Suite 860

San Diego, CA 92101

Demetrios A. Sparacino

Sparacino Law Corporation

525 “B” Street, Suite 1500

San Diego, CA 92101

Steven Campora

Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood 

Campora LLP

20 Bicentennial Circle

Sacramento, CA 95826

Frank Pitre

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy

840 Malcom Rd., Ste 200

Burlingame, CA 94010

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Letter to Counsel 

November 18, 2015 

Re: PG&E’s Offer of Assistance to Address Urgent Needs 

Page 2

GOUGH & HANCOCK LLP

This Friday, November 20, 2015, PG&E plans to send the attached information and application 

to the addresses listed as destroyed on the Cal Fire Damage Assessment Report. If you do not 

want PG&E to mail the information and application to any of your clients, please provide their 

addresses so that we may remove those addresses from the Cal Fire Damage Assessment Report 

address list. 

Please ask any of your eligible clients who may need immediate financial assistance and do not 

have insurance to review and fill out the attached forms and then return them directly to Pacific 

Gas and Electric Company, via email lawclaims@pge.com, or fax (925) 459-7326, or mail to 

1850 Gateway Blvd., 3rd Floor, Concord, CA 94520. PG&E will not use your clients’ 

applications, or any information contained therein, in the litigation (unless the information is 

obtained independently in the litigation). As you will see from the attached documents, PG&E 

will require your client(s) to agree that any amount paid under this program will be deducted 

from any future recovery. 

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We would appreciate 

confirmation that you have shared this information with your clients.

Very truly yours,

Kenneth R. Chiate 

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Gayle L. Gough

Gough & Hancock LLP 

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Pacific Gas and

Electric Company

pG&Ets Offer of Assistance To Address urgent Needs - Description

We know the last several weeks have been very difficult for our customers after the Butte Fire.

Our thoughts and best wishes continue to be with all who have been affected by this destructive

event.

PG&E is cooperating with CAL FIRE and other parties in the on-going investigation of the Butte

Fire and these investigations take time. We understand that this can create hardships and

therefore, PG&E is offering to assist eligible residents who do not have insurance and who have

been displaced or otherwise impacted by the Butte Fire and are in urgent need of financial

assistance to cover immediate needs. PG&E is making up to $50,000 available to each uninsured

property owner who reside d at a destroyed property at the time of the fire, and up to $ 10,000 for

Lninsured renters who occupied such a property at the time of the fire, to be used for temporary

housing, vehicle rental, content replacement or other immediate financial needs.

If you are uninsured, we have included a form for you to describe your immediate financial

needs. After you complete the form, please sign it to confirm the accuracy of the information

provided, and retum the form to Pacific Gas and Electric company, tY "T1l

iawclaims@pee.com , 

fax (925) 459-7326, or mail 1850 Gateway Blvd., 3'o Floor, Concord, CA

94520. PG&E will review and verify the information you provide, and then notify you as soon

as possible if you qualify for assistance under this program and of the amount of assistance it

wifl provide. If PG&E determines that you are not eligible for immediate assistance under this

progiu1n, your claim nevertheless will remain pending with PG&E and will be evaluated and

processed as soon as Possible'

Please note that PG&E is providing this assistance on the condition that you agree that any

payment made at this time will be deducted from any recovery or award you may receive in any

iitigation arising from the Butte Fire. If you do not recover any other funds from PG&E arising

from the Butte Fire, or if the amount of any recovery is less than the amount of this payment, you

will not be obligated to repay any amount that exceeds your fecovely.

For questions regarding this letter, please call the PG&E Butte claims helpline (209) 636-9076.

*t*,F,tr'/"*"

Nicolaus Glero, Sr. Manager

Energy Solutions and Service

0376540001/739223r.6

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PG&E's Offer of Assistance To Address Urgent Needs - Application Form Please provide

the information described below and send a signed copy of this form to Pacific Gas and Electric

Company, via email lawclaims@pee.com,tu*1SZS1iig-lZZe,or mail 1850 Gateway Blvd., 3'd

Floor, Concord, CA94520. PG&E will review your application package and then notify you if

you are eligible for an immediate need payment and the amount of assistance being offered. If

you wish to provide additional information or explanation, please write on the reverse of this

form or attach additional pages.

Date of application:

Recipient name(s) (list all individuals residing

at the affected propertY):

Affected property address :

Property owner and/or renters contact

information:

Phone Number:

Email address:

Is the affected address covered by homeowners

or renters insurance?

*Please note this assistance offer is only for

those who do NOT have insurance.

Current mailing address:

Amount requested (up to $50,000 for owners;

up to $10,000 for renters):

Were you an owner or renter? If a renter,

please provide the property owner's name and

contact information. If an owner, was the

property rented, and if so, to whom?

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Was the house destroved or rendered

uninhabitable?

How do you intend to use any funds that are

provided?

(Please describe any other factors you would

like PG&E to consider on the back of this

form.)

State the name of any attomey representing

you related to the Butte Fire.

Certificatign of accuracy: By my signature below, I certiff under penalty of perjury that the

foregoing information is accurate and that I did not have property insurance covering the affected

property. I further certit/ that I agree to use any funds provided by Pacific Gas and Electric

Company (*PG&E") for the pqposes described above. I further agree that any payment

received from PG&E now can be deducted from any future recovery or award I receive, as

described above.

Signature lDate

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