close Video Bobcat Fire in Southern California burns more than 36,000 acres Firefighters are trying to contain nearly 100 active wildfires raging across the West Coast; Christina Coleman reports from Arcadia, California. A wildfire in Southern California that grew to be among the largest ever recorded in Los Angeles County may have been caused by tree branches coming into contact with power equipment, a utility said Monday. Southern California Edison (SCE) said in a letter to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that investigators from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have taken a 23-foot-long line of conductor belonging to the utility, an “H-Frame structure” with two power poles and three tree branches. The letter on Monday came after the utility filed another notice with the agency saying there was an "incident" on their grid around the time of the Bobcat Fire that started on Sept. 6. BOBCAT FIRE CREATES 'HADES-SCAPE' AS CALIFORNIA … [Read more...] about California wildfire may have sparked from tree branches hitting power equipment, utility says
