An idle Southern California Edison transmission tower was dismantled, removed and flown away via helicopter Wednesday so it could be tested to determine what, if any, role it played in igniting ...

One of two Southern California Edison transmission towers was dismantled and removed Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether the towers played a role in starting the deadly Eaton fire.

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Edison International’s Southern California utility has 465 miles of unused power lines like the one accused of sparking January’s deadly Eaton Fire and ... creating an electric arc that ...

Edison denies responsibility for the 2017 fire. When the Creek fire exploded in the Angeles National Forest in 2017, suspicions quickly fell on electric power lines as the cause. Witnesses ...

Southern California Edison’s electric ... Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric. The state’s Wildfire Safety Advisory Board reviewed the annual fire ignition figures from the ...

Southern California Edison service territory. However, at this time, there is no indication that SCE equipment is believed to have started the fire and the utility has not filed an electric ...

He said the electric system reflected an “electrical anomaly” a minute after the reported start of the Hurst fire. With the Eaton fire, he said, Edison had cut power to distribution lines west ...

In a report issued last week, Southern California Edison said it filed an electric safety incident report after the company learned fire agencies were investigating whether electrical equipment ...

A downed power line owned by public utility company Edison International may have caused the Hurst Fire, company officials said in a press release Sunday. The damaged line was found in the area ...

Southern California Edison officials conceded in a regulatory ... prepositioning not just fire crews but electric crews at vulnerable substations and lines, and, most costly, burying power lines.