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Southern California Edison said the Los Angeles Fire Department is investigating the cause of the Hurst Fire and believes the utility's equipment caused the blaze, which did not destroy any structures or cause any deaths. In a required filing with state utility regulators, SCE said "absent additional evidence, SCE believes its equipment may be associated with ignition of the Hurst Fire."
In a second filing, the utility said it is looking into whether an idle transmission line became energized and possibly sparked the deadly Eaton Fire, which also began Jan. 7 and the LA-area community of Altadena. But it still maintains there's no evidence its equipment was responsible for starting that blaze.
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"SCE has not identified typical or obvious indications that would support this association, such as broken conductors, fresh arc marks in the preliminary origin area, or evidence of faults on the energized lines running through that area," the utility said in a news release announcing its filings.
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