LA City Utility Sued Over Water Shortage for Palisades Fire
Live Mint-- The city of Los Angeles’ electric and water utility was hit with a lawsuit faulting it for not supplying enough water to fight the biggest fire still raging in the second-largest US metropolis. Property owners in the city’s tony Pacific Palisades neighborhood sued the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the US. Earlier Monday, Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was hit with several lawsuits blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting the Eaton Fire in the Pasadena area, the second-largest of the conflagrations that have ravaged Los Angeles since last week. They said that if the utility had acted responsibly, the damage caused by the fire could have been “greatly reduced.” California Governor Gavin Newsom last week ordered a state investigation of the Los Angeles agencies running the city’s water systems after fire hydrants ran dry.
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