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An 18-month investigation by the Los Angeles County Fire Department has pinpointed an electrical spark from a Southern California Edison transmission tower, one that wasn't even in service, as the cause of the Eaton Fire, a blaze that killed 19 people and leveled more than 9,000 buildings. Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone released the findings […] The post LA County investigators blame Edison's idle transmission tower for Eaton Fire that killed 19 appeared first on American Almanac .
An 18-month investigation by the Los Angeles County Fire Department has pinpointed an electrical spark from a Southern California Edison transmission tower, one that wasn't even in service, as the cause of the Eaton Fire, a blaze that killed 19 people and leveled more than 9,000 buildings. Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone released the findings after investigators reviewed physical evidence, witness accounts, and multiple videos tracing the fire's origin to Eaton Canyon in the Altadena foothills. The report concluded that electrical arcing from a tower on Edison's inactive Mesa-Sylmar transmission line ignited dry vegetation beneath the structure on January 7, 2025, as powerful Santa Ana winds drove the flames into surrounding neighborhoods.…Open
The high court's ruling on Monsanto Company. v. Durnell is expected to shape the future of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that Bayer-owned Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.
The man, now 44, said he was repeatedly sexually abused when he was a child at a school in Newark in the 1990s.