A Sylmar family experienced flash, booms and flames under Southern California Edison transmission towers as brush fires approached their home, echoing a similar blaze six years earlier. Eyewitness video shows the January Eaton fire igniting beneath Edison towers, a blaze that destroyed much of Altadena and killed 19 people. A lawsuit alleges an improperly grounded transmission line caused both the 2019 Saddle Ridge fire and the recent Sylmar Hurst fire and accuses Edison of failing to repair the line and of not being transparent with authorities. Edison denies the allegations amid ongoing legal scrutiny and depositions.
Edison's maintenance of its power lines is now under scrutiny in the wake of January's devastating Eaton fire, which destroyed a wide swath of Altadena and killed 19 people. Video captured by eyewitnesses shows the Eaton fire igniting under Edison transmission towers. A lawsuit making its way through Los Angeles County Superior Court is raising new questions about Edison's role in the 2019 Saddle Ridge fire in Sylmar and whether the company was transparent about the cause of the blaze. The fire killed at least one person and destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes and other structures.
Seconds later, Delgado said in an interview, the couple saw flames under two electric transmission towers owned by Southern California Edison - even more shocking because they had seen a fire ignite under one of those towers just six years before. "We were traumatized," he said. "It was almost the exact same thing." In both fires, the family was forced to race to their car and flee with few belongings as the flames rushed through the brush toward their home, which survived both blazes.
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