An electric line that was repaired after the deadly Eaton wildfire caught fire last week. The line was less than a mile from the transmission tower that is a focus of investigators probing the wildfire that ignited Jan.
In separate lawsuits, Benjamin Crump and the NAACP are going after Southern California Electric on behalf of Eaton fire victims.
Although the preserve where the Eaton Fire is believed to have started suffered significant damage, many of its oaks and sycamore trees appear to have survived.
Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across Los Angeles.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection issued an evacuation order for Eaton Canyon, as well as multiple other areas, on Tuesday.
An electrical tower in Eaton Canyon is being investigated as the possible origin of the deadly fire that shares its name. According to the Los Angeles Times, investigators from CalFire are looking
Surveillance video and witness accounts are raising questions about whether the Eaton Fire may have been started by a downed power line.
The complaints allege the utility failed to de-energize its power lines, which allowed the electrical equipment to spark the massive blaze near Pasadena on Jan. 7.
The blazes have grown to more than 37,000 acres, killing at least 25 people and destroying thousands of structures.
At least four lawsuits were filed Monday morning against Southern California Edison in connection with the Eaton Fire.
When the first flames of what would become southern California’s Eaton Canyon Fire sparked Tuesday night, Kim Budge couldn’t have guessed that her home would be destroyed. “We started packing as soon as we saw the fire,
Residents in the wildfire-ravaged communities of Altadena and Pasadena witnessed flames near the base of a transmission line owned by Southern California Edison.