Eedison in South California announced that one of the transmission tower was facing strict monitoring on whether the Eaton fire had caused the Eaton Fire, about 300 yards from the Idon Canyon tower this week.
Edison did not directly connect the cause of the camp and the fire, and the lawyers who have sued for the power company burned more than 7,000 units, and the company was not involved in the death of 17 people. He expressed a deep doubt.
However, this exposure highlights one or eight strategies that investigators at the California Forest Fire Bureau are trying to accurately elucidate the cause of the fire.
Firefighting authorities searched for Eaton Canyon’s power transmission tower, and residents told the Times that they witnessed the early fire of the fire at the base of the tower. The early photos and videos taken by several inhabitants confirmed that the first flame of the fire burned up directly below the tower, then ran down the gorge, and the remaining fire exploded and destroyed hundreds of houses. I’m doing it.
Edison said he did not believe that his facilities had caused the fire. It is unknown when the investigation will end and what other sources are investigating California Fire.
In a letter to the plaintiffs’ lawyer confirmed by the Times, Edison said that the camp had two bonfires, food and tents.
The letter obtained by the Times says, “The campsite was occupied just before the Eaton fire occurred.”
According to the letter, the power company officials have also found metal pieces and fragments near the Eaton Canyon’s turning tower.
Law firms, which have sued the South California Edison investigators and the power company, were allowed to start investigating the location of the Eaton Fire last week, but since then both sides have been about fire occurrence routes. He pointed out the possibility of obviously different. It may have been spark.
Inhabitants of the residents who filed a lawsuit against Southern California Edison argued that witnesses had witnessed arc discharge in the tower just before the fire. More than 20 litigation has been filed against major power companies, suggesting that the video and images have caused a fire by an electrical device from South California Edison.
A lawyer in the three offices, who served as the agent of the residents who led South California Edison individually, denied the idea that the field may have had some relationship with the fire.
“The homeless’s wild area has nothing to do with it,” said Alexander Robertson, the office of Robertson and Associates, and filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Altadena residents who have destroyed the house. Ta.
Richard Bridgeford, a Bridgeford Gulson and Ultinian Law Office, who has also filed a lawsuit, has more than three soccer fields away from a wild -operated area to a place that seems to be a fire source. He said that it was unlikely that he had played. role.
“I don’t think it’s over here,” he said. “To be honest, I believe this is rather fake information.”
California Fire investigators had blocked a wide range of Eaton Canyon to investigate the cause of the fire. The Times reporters have been paying attention to one of the transmit tower, and checked the video on the basics of the first flame of the fire burning.
This area was opened on January 16th, and since then, on -site inspections have been conducted by the officials of South California Edison and the investigators hired by a law firm who filed a lawsuit against a power company. There is.
Ali Mogadas, a partner of Edelson PC, who has also filed a lawsuit, said that the field would hinder the investigation.
“Unfortunately, Edison in Southern California seems to be saying” Look there! “Is a claim that is often seen by public interest businesses in such cases,” said Mogadas. “We focus on analyzing the actual evidence that SCE is already being handed over from the court.”
Lawyer Gerald Singleton, a lawyer at the Singlton Schlevers Office, focuses on the fire caused by electrical equipment, and investigators at the office are arc discharged on the tower. He noticed that there were traces that match the signs.
“It was a fire due to electricity or a fire that had never been seen before,” said Sington.
Bridgeford said that the investigator also noticed the possibility of traces to suggest an arc discharge to the tower.
Cathedeen Danley Bee, a spokeswoman for South California Edison, said that the company’s equipment has not found any signs of arc discharge so far.
“We hope we can’t jump into a quick conclusion,” she says.
Some companies have requested Edison to lower the wire from the tower.
According to Robertson, when arc discharge occurs, wire aluminum elements often cause damage. His company and others requested Edison to lower the wire and inspect because he could not test it on the ground or drone.
Robertson said that the company had told the company that it could take several months to lower the wire, and he said it was “unacceptable.”
Earlier this week, the judge ordered South California Edison to save data and equipment on the source of the Eaton fire. In the documents submitted to the court opposed to this order, the company has already provided information to lawyers and preserves facilities and evidence around one square mileage in the east of Altadena. He said he was.
