A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) above-ground power line near the Pacific Palisades was energized when the Palisades Fire began early this year, but that there is no evidence that the line contributed to the blaze, the municipal utility said on Tuesday.
The transmission line near the hills where the deadly inferno began on Jan. 7 has come under scrutiny more than two months after the blaze began in what is expected to be recorded as one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history.
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