By Salvador Hernandez | Los Angeles Times
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.
But the revelation underscores the high-stakes maneuvering as California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection investigators try to determine exactly what caused the fire.
Read more at: LA Times
