Southern California Edison discovered signs of an encampment about 300 yards from the spot where the Eaton fire is suspected to have started.
Facing growing scrutiny over whether one of its transmission towers sparked the Eaton fire, Southern California Edison this week said that an encampment was found roughly 300 yards downhill from the tower in Eaton Canyon. Edison did not directly link the camp to a possible cause of the fire, and attorneys who are suing the utility expressed deep skepticism that it was involved in the fire that burned more than 7,000 homes and killed 17 people.
Richard Bridgford, from the law firm of Bridgford Gleason & Artinian, who has also filed suit, said the distance of the encampment to the suspected start of the fire was more than the equivalent of three football fields away, and therefore unlikely to have played a role. 'I think it's neither here nor there,' he said. 'I honestly believe that it's more disinformation.
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