To the editor: I learn your article on the Southern California Edison chief government claiming that his company did everything right before the Eaton fire with some amazement.
Definitely, everyone seems to be taking part in the blame sport proper now, however for Edison to say that the winds weren’t inside its 60- to 80-mph vary for energy cutoff is a bit shocking, significantly when the info (as reported in that very same article) present that close by wind speeds in Altadena exceeded 60 mph. I can solely conclude that 60-80 mph is an arbitrary vary, and Edison will get to determine when to chop the facility when the winds are someplace inside it.
The true downside is that the monitoring station and the tower suspected of igniting the blaze weren’t in precisely the identical location. Wind speeds on the tower might have been larger than these on the monitoring station.
Contemplating that cheap, tiny sensors are available and may present real-time knowledge, it’s exceptional that Edison was circuitously monitoring the wind pace at an space more likely to expertise harmful gusts.
Stefan Kirchanski, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Studying that Edison lagged in inspecting the transmission lines that will have ignited the fires as soon as once more underscored the failings on this for-profit system.
It’s merely unsafe to have a crucially necessary utility, inextricably tied to public security, run by an organization with a revenue motive. As a result of when revenue is the driving force, cost-cutting is rarely far behind; actually, it’s baked into the system.
L.J. Williamson, Granada Hills
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To the editor: To ensure that Edison to prevail on its assertions that it isn’t accountable for the deaths, property injury and human distress attributable to the Eaton fireplace, it should persuade Cal Fireplace, each choose and each jury that hears each case towards it that Edison will not be accountable.
That isn’t going to occur, as a result of its Southern California chief government stated that when he noticed the movies and early pictures of the hearth burning beneath considered one of Edison’s towers, it was cheap to conclude that Edison was accountable for the Eaton fireplace.
Edison’s self-serving statements and stories on the contrary will not be going to alter that.
Charles Cummings, Pasadena
The author is an lawyer.
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To the editor: This massive-scale destruction has one small silver lining: The Los Angeles Division of Water and Energy and Southern California Edison can now put all utility traces underground when Altadena and Pacific Palisades are rebuilt.
Cary Adams, North Hollywood
