As crews clean up from LA wildfires, some residents are furious over hazardous waste
As crews work to clean up from the Los Angeles wildfires, city officials and residents are opposing the designation of a ...
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Edison wants to raise rates to pay for wildfires linked to its equipment
The commission will later consider a similar action that would tap Edison customers to cover $5.4 billion in damages from the 2018 Woolsey fire in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Southern ...
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State officials approve Edison rate hike for 2017 wildfire sparked by its equipment
A second proposal, still pending, would shift $5.4 billion of costs it paid to victims of the 2018 Woolsey fire to customers. Investigators said Edison’s equipment sparked both fires.
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Commission approves SoCal Edison rate increase to cover cost of 2017 fire sparked by its equipment
Your electricity rates could be going up to help Southern California Edison cover more than $1.6 billion in payments the utility has made to victims of the devastating 2017 Thomas Fire.
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Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people in Paradise; the Woolsey fire, which started the same day and killed three in Malibu; as well as in Colorado's 2021 Marshall Fire, which destroyed more ...
Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...
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SoCal Edison allowed to raise rates to help pay for 2017 Thomas Fire
The utility has also asked for the commission to have ratepayers pay for damages amounting to $5.4 billion for another fire in 2018 — the Woolsey Fire. A decision on that request will be made at ...
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Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn
There were two in the 1970s, one in the '80s and three in the '90s. This century those hills saw the Woolsey fire, one of the most destructive burns in California history. The Franklin fire ...