SoCal Edison’s latest report to the California Public Utilities Commission includes new information about the Eaton Fire in Altadena and Hurst Fire in Sylmar.

Southern California Edison’s admission that its equipment may have ignited the Hurst fire in the San Fernando Valley on Jan. 7 is being seized on by lawyers suing the company for another fire in the ...

But it is the third time in 18 years that residents of Sylmar, northeast of Los Angeles, have fled wildfires likely sparked near SCE equipment above them, and in some cases died or lost homes.

Now that the majority of the nearly 800-acre blaze has been contained, authorities are investigating if downed Southern California Edison equipment sparked the Hurst Fire in Sylmar.

A preliminary SCE investigation revealed that a circuit in the Eagle Rock/Sylmar area experienced a relay, or a glitch in the power at 10:11 p.m., just before the Hurst fire was reported.

Southern California Edison reported to state regulators Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the Hurst fire that burned nearly 800 acres in Sylmar last month, but the utility has yet to ...

SoCal Edison says equipment may have ignited January's Hurst Fire in Sylmar SoCal Edison's latest report to the California Public Utilities Commission includes new information about the Eaton Fire ...

Southern California Edison reported to state regulators Thursday that its equipment likely sparked the Hurst fire that burned nearly 800 acres in Sylmar last month, but the utility has yet to ...

SoCal Edison had de-energized certain power lines on Thursday and Friday as a defensive move to prevent a fire, but the utility says the transmission line running through Sylmar was not powered down.

The conditions seemed right last week for Southern California Edison to power off the towering electric lines that sweep behind a row of stucco homes in the Sylmar foothills. Winds were high ...