Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was hit with a lawsuit blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting one of the wildfires still raging in the second-largest US metropolis.
The lawsuit is on behalf of a group of homeowners, renters, business owners and others with properties destroyed by the Eaton Fire in the Pasadena area. The suit alleges a Southern California Edison pole holding power lines was the cause of the blaze that leveled the community of Altadena.
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The suit Monday is