{"id":39343,"date":"2025-03-05T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39343"},"modified":"2025-03-05T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T03:25:38","slug":"los-angeles-sues-power-utility-alleging-equipment-sparked-deadly-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39343","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles sues power utility, alleging equipment sparked deadly wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Southern California Edison accused over Eaton fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed nearly 10,000 structures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>&nbsp;county is suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility\u2019s equipment sparked January\u2019s deadly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california-wildfires\">Eaton fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The fire was one of several major blazes that tore through the region starting on 7 January. It killed at least 17 people in the Altadena area of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>, and destroyed more than 9,400 structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The lawsuit seeks to recover costs and damages sustained from the blaze, including the devastation to community infrastructure, the region\u2019s environment and public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Additional costs have been incurred by county departments for support in assisting residents recovering from the fire\u2019s destruction, the county said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe county\u2019s case is essential to the restoration and rebuilding process for the community, including residences and businesses, to recover from the devastation,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Edison was reviewing the lawsuit and \u201cwill address it through the appropriate legal process\u201d, utility spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The fire\u2019s cause is still under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The complaint alleges that witnesses, photos and videos indicate the fire started directly under Edison transmission lines in Eaton Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe are committed to seeking justice for the Altadena community and the taxpayers of Los Angeles county,\u201d the county counsel, Dawyn Harrison, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The county, the county flood control district and the county\u2019s consolidated fire protection district are the plaintiffs in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre are also filing suits against Edison for damages to taxpayer resources and public infrastructure incurred from the Eaton fire, according to the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/05\/los-angeles-southern-california-edison-wildfire\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern California Edison accused over Eaton fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed nearly 10,000 structures Los Angeles&nbsp;county is suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility\u2019s equipment sparked January\u2019s deadly&nbsp;Eaton fire. The fire was one of several major blazes that tore through the region starting on 7 January. It killed at least 17 people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1932,3097,32574,3525,8158],"class_list":["post-39343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-equipment","tag-los-angeles","tag-power-utility","tag-sue","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39345,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39343\/revisions\/39345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}