Another wrongful death lawsuit was filed against utility company Southern California Edison over the Eaton fire, which tore through Altadena, California, last week.
The lawsuit is at least the sixth filed against the company over claims that Southern California Edison failed to de-energize all of its electrical equipment in the face of red-flag fire warnings, KABC reported Thursday.
Thursday's lawsuit was filed on behalf of Evelyn McClendon's family. She is one of at least 16 people to have died in Altadena. Famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, said Monday that it is investigating whether any of its electrical equipment contributed to the wildfires.
"We've seen in your reporting the videos, we've seen the photos, so we know that there was fire there. We don't know what caused it," Pedro Pizarro, president of Edison International, told KABC.
"Again, there was the obvious signature that we would see normally, but we have not been able to get up close to those lines because firefighters have determined that it hasn't been safe to do that yet.
"Whatever we find, we'll be transparent with our public," he added.
In an incident report filed to the California Public Utilities Commission on Jan. 9, Southern California Edison reported no "operational anomalies" until more than one hour after the first report of the Eaton fire.
"To date, no fire agency has suggested that SCE's electric facilities were involved in the ignition or requested the removal and retention of any SCE equipment," Southern California Edison wrote in its report.
Also, more than a dozen lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over water supply failures to battle the Pacific Palisades fire, CBS News reported Thursday.
"The water supply system servicing Pacific Palisades failed miserably, leaving residents and firefighters with little to no water to fight the blaze," Roger Behle, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement Tuesday.
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