Amid a search for the cause of the crisis, energy firm Southern California Edison admitted its grid short-circuited just after 10pm on Tuesday when a tower went down – the same time the Hurst Fire erupted.
As investigators continue to search for the cause of the Los Angeles fires, new evidence potentially points to downed power lines as a possible source.
Southern California Edison said in a filing on Friday that one of its high-voltage power lines short-circuited at around the same time the Hurst Fire erupted on Tuesday.
Although Edison said it was not yet clear if the fallen power line happened before or after the fire started, it comes after Bob Marshall, the chief executive of Whisker Labs, a company that monitors electrical activity, told Fox News that the firm saw spikes in faults in the hours before the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst Fires.
Marshall said data shows the power was not immediately shut off after the faults surged, and may have been caused by ‘tree limbs touching wires or wires blowing in the wind and touching.’
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