La County sued South California Edison for Eaton Feuer damage

Tave speak:

• The county of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit on Wednesday Against Southern California Edison and Edison International, the parent company of the supply company, claimed that the transmission towers of the pension company last month had triggered the Eaton Wildfire in Altadena, a suburb of Los Angeles, in front of three.
• In the lawsuit it is claimed that the fire has caused “hundreds of millions of dollars” to the district's physical real estate real estate. In the lawsuit, compensation for the loss of leisure areas, parks, streets and other district infrastructures as well as for the compensation claims of the employee, the overtime of the employees, the loss of taxes, the cleaning and recovery costs and much more are requested, which according to a statement by the district office of the district of La County of County Counsel.
• According to the statement, the lawsuit is of crucial importance for the rebuilding of the district. SCE believes that the cause of the fire remains unknown until an ongoing examination.

Diver Insight:

SCE believes It will take 12-18 months to determine the cause of the 14,000 hectare Eaton fire, but La County and other communities in Southern California are not inclined to wait.

La County Office of County Counsel filed a lawsuit against the pension company and his parent company on Wednesday and claimed that video material, photos and testimonies provide “clear evidence” that the fire was caused by the electrical devices of SCE. The lawsuit claims that SCE acted negligently when she no longer had to do during the red flag warning that was preceded by the Eaton fire.

Before the fire was ignited, the national weather service had issued several warnings regarding a “life -threatening and destructive storm” before the district's ignition. But SCE did not have all the electrical devices during the event and at around 6:11 p.m. at the same time when the Eaton Fire began, the pension company no longer recognized a mistake on its Eagle rock goulder gear that increased the current to two gear towers in the area in which the Eaton fire was created.

The fire destroyed or borne numerous County real estate, including the Davies Community Center, the Altadena Senior Center, the Eaton Wash dam as well as several parks and leisure areas, according to the complaint. Although estimates of the total costs of the fire are still in the works, the complaint that has been documented so far states that the previously documented damage has achieved “hundreds of millions of dollars”, which makes it the most second -destructive and fifth fatal fire in California history.

The cities of Sierra Madre and Pasadena also filed a lawsuit against SCE on Wednesday, which claimed similar damage to the public properties of these municipalities.

“The destruction of public institutions that are essential for Pasadena's business requires considerable investments to restore and rebuild,” said Lisa Derderian, public information officer of the city of Pasadena. “While our restoration efforts continue to be responsible for pursuing adequate compensation for the costs of reconstruction of the public infrastructure that our community is dependent on.”

In addition to damage to public properties, the affected communities also lost several churches, a Jewish temple, a mosque, local companies and houses, which, according to the complaint in La County, led to the expulsion of tens of thousands of residents. The California Ministry of Forestry and Fire Protection estimates that the fire destroyed 9,400 structure and damaged a thousand more. It leads to 17 deaths.

A spokesman for SCE repeated the position of the company on Wednesday that the cause of the fire is unknown.

“Our hearts are with the communities affected by the forest fires in Southern California, and we check the recently submitted complaints and will address them through the corresponding legal processes,” she said. In general, she said: “These examinations take time and we review all available information to determine the potential causes, including the question of whether our equipment could be connected. However, I would like to be very clear that the cause of the Eaton fire continues to be examined and this examination is still in the early stages. “