Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern California.
The family of an Eaton fire victim is suing Southern California Edison for wrongful death, alleging that the utility company's negligence is to blame for the devastating blaze that killed 59-year-old Evelyn McClendon.
Damage caused by Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire in Altadena were captured by photojournalists as L.A. officials map the extent of the blazes.
Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility faces lawsuits blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting one of the wildfires still raging in the second-largest US metropolis.
Southern California Edison, the electrical utility for Los Angeles, has been sued for its alleged role in starting one of the raging Los Angeles fires that have collectively killed at least 24 people and displaced tens of thousands of people from their homes.
The law firm Edelson PC filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday on behalf of a former FedEx worker, Evangeline Iglesias, who lost her home in the Eaton Fire that broke out just outside Los Angeles last Tuesday, killing 16 people and destroying approximately 7,000 structures in Altadena and Pasadena.
Some 278,000 Southern California Edison customers were affected by outages as of Friday evening, either due to weather or fire-related damage or as a result of pre-emptive safety shutoffs ...
Southern California Edison, a unit of utility Edison International, was hit by multiple lawsuits on Monday claiming its electrical equipment started one of the major wildfires currently raging in the Los Angeles area,
The lawsuit is on behalf of a group of homeowners, renters, business owners and others with properties destroyed by the Eaton Fire in the Pasadena area, Bloomberg reported.