Palisades Fire live updates: Wildfires spread in Los Angeles, prompting mandatory evacuations, as Santa Ana winds expected to intensify

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:

These fire were in rich areas.

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Landon Caeli said:

I pay my taxes with blood money. My own blood, sweat and tears... And shattered bones.

Sacrifice me! Sacrifice me to the poor and the immigrant!

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essentialsaltes said:

Edison neglected maintenance of its aging transmission lines before the Jan. 7 fires.​

Southern California Edison did not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on maintenance of its aging transmission lines that it told regulators was necessary and began billing to customers in the four years before the Jan. 7 wildfires, according to a Times review of regulatory filings.

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New evidence confirms Edison’s idle line ignited Eaton fire, lawyers say​

essentialsaltes said:

As one of those customers, it's galling that I'll no doubt be paying (again) for this malfeasance.

New evidence confirms Edison’s idle line ignited Eaton fire, lawyers say​

Video obtained from a surveillance camera at Gerrish Swim & Tennis Club in Pasadena shows two bright flashes occurring in the location of the tower holding the idle line at 6:11 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2025.

The flashes correspond to the time that Edison recorded two faults, three seconds apart, on another transmission line more than five miles away, the lawyers said in the filing, citing new data provided by the utility.

Soon after the faults, residents nearby recorded videos of a fire burning at the base of the tower, which is known as M16T1.

“Southern California Edison has spent the last sixteen months attempting to forestall the inevitable legal consequences of razing a large swath of the communities of Altadena and Pasadena to the ground,” the lawyers wrote in the filing.

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