Electrical tower a focus as Eaton Fire's potential origin after video clues emerge

Edison has probably climbed that tower, inspected it, but we don't know yet if there was a problem with it,

Wara said

I never imagined that that kind of small fire that we saw at that tower was going to be so devastating,

Rojas said

You can't isolate this decision to this one line,

Wara said

As we do our telemetry, our monitoring of the system, we do not see any electrical anomalies,

Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro said on CNBC of the company's review of how the transmission lines reacted in the period before and after the fire began

I still see the fire investigators right now, crawling up there around the poles,

said Brendan Thorn, 28, who recalled witnessing flames at the tower's base and stayed behind at his Pasadena home while his family fled

We have an approximately 10-acre brush fire across canyon, underneath high-tension power lines.”

In a dispatch call, fire crews were told

It’s going to be a long road to recovery, and I know we will come out of it stronger, ... but it’s not going to be without the help of people here and people seeing from afar.”

he added

Karen Basslos Angeles Mayor

One of the first people I met at the Disaster Recovery Center today was someone who lost their home in the Palisades Fire but was there to volunteer to help others. That's the spirit of Los Angeles."

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on X Tuesday

The anticipated 70 mph winds have yet to materialize. However, this could change, and we are still at risk,

said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone

Gavin Newsomcalifornia Governor

California is working closely with the federal government to get debris removal teams quickly into the areas of Los Angeles that have been devastated by the hurricane-force firestorms. We're clearing obstacles to ensure cleanup happens as soon as it's safe for teams to move in."

California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X on Tuesday

Please stay on guard for a fast-moving fire. The winds underperformed today, but one more enhancement could happen tonight-tomorrow. The PDS Red Flag Warning remains in effect for the same areas, now for 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wed,

the service wrote in a post to X, formerly known as Twitter

The plaintiffs won't have to prove (the utility) poorly maintained these transmission wires or did a shoddy job,

Farber said

There are times where a utility will say that their equipment started it, but they weren't negligent. That's very rare,

Singleton said

Typically when you have a fire caused by electrical infrastructure you do see a signature voltage drop or current increasing and we have not seen that in our study,

Edison CEO Pedro Pizarro told Bloomberg TV

The price tag of these wildfires will be something we’ve never seen before,

said plaintiffs lawyer Mikal Watts, who has previously represented wildfire victims

Daniel A. Farberamerican author and historian

California is very unusual in that normally this doctrine only applies to government entities,

said Daniel Farber, a professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, where he specializes in energy and the environment