Power lines are suspected to have been involved in a major wildfire that led to evacuation orders for 100,000 homes and was blamed for 2 deaths in Los Angeles County last week, authorities said.
LOS ANGELES — Power lines are suspected to have been involved in a major wildfire that led to evacuation orders for 100,000 homes and was blamed for two deaths in Los Angeles County last week, authorities said Monday.
The cause of the fire remained undetermined, fire investigators said, but the electric utility serving the area, Southern California Edison, or SCE, confirmed to NBC News that it filed a notice with state regulators on Friday reporting that"our system was impacted near the reported time of the fire."
An inmate firefighter crew from Prado Conservation Camp puts out a hotspot from the Saddleridge Fire in Porter Ranch, California, on Saturday.Sylmar wasn't among the communities for which SCE pre-emptively shut off power last week as strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity created what authorities called ideal wildfire conditions.
Two people have died in the Saddleridge Fire after having suffered heart attacks, one of them a 40-year Los Angeles park ranger, authorities said.that swept through a mobile home for retirees last week in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles.
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