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After four years, the Fire Victim Trust is in its final stage. Trustee Cathy Yanni tells the Press Democrat the trust is in the “wind-down phase,” adding that the plan is to close the trust’s work by the end of this year or early next year. Established in July of 2020, the 13-and-a-half-billion-dollar Fire Victim Trust has been paying victims of California wildfires that were caused by PG&E between 2015 and 2018. The trust has made settlement offers to all of the more than 70-thousand claimants it oversees, with more than 99 percent of those offers accepted.