Southern California Edison Sued Over Los Angeles-Area Wildfires
- Utility may be legally responsible if its lines sparked blazes
- Shares have suffered since December outbreak of conflagrations
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Edison International’s Southern California Edison was blamed in a lawsuit for three wildfires that destroyed more than 1,000 buildings and killed a firefighter last month in the Los Angeles area.
While no official findings about the cause of the fires in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have been announced, six people who suffered property losses amid hundreds of thousands of acres that were scorched claim the blazes were ignited by sparks from the utility’s power lines or electrical infrastructure.