Posted on 01/11/2025 12:56:09 PM PST by Libloather
Faults along Los Angeles’ power grid surged in the same locations where three of this week’s massive wildfires are raging, a company that monitors electrical activity said.
Whisker Labs recorded sharp increases in faults in the hours prior to the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst Fires, its chief executive officer Bob Marshall told Fox News Saturday.
In the Palisades area, the largest of the fires, there were 63 grid faults in the two to three hours prior to the start of the fire, Marshall said.
There were also 18 faults registered in the hour it began Tuesday.
He also said there were 317 grid faults “in the hours preceding” the Eaton Fire near Altadena and about 230 that occurred before the Hurst Fire.
He said on a typical day there are few faults.
Although investigators have yet to determine the cause of the wildfires, sparks from faults can fall to the ground and ignite vegetation.
High winds can then carry flames at rapid speeds.
“What we cannot say … is whether one of those faults caused the fire. We don’t know that,” Marshall said.
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NOW they tell us. You would think someone could've fixed this particular problem by now.
Purposeful “faults”.
The winds were whipping the illegals.
Up here in Northern California, when we have high wind events under dry conditions, PG&E shuts the power down to preclude trees taking out the lines and starting fires. With 100mph wind gusts down there, I really don't understand whey they would not do the same unless the area is so dependent upon water pumps they couldn't do it.
In that latter case, I would think it wise to be able to drive those pumps with diesel engines.
I don’t understand why they don’t bury their lines considering the danger of fire.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the MO in Hawaii as well?
I have a friend who lives out there, she told me a few years ago the grid was so bad...they turned the power off!! Literally killed all power to her area due to high winds.
Bush’s Fault.
Nope. Democrats hate deisel. Ask them.
not bush’s fault. Trump’ s fault. ask any California liberal.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in our....grid
Yup. Diesel, NG, gasoline, and any dependable fossil fuel powered backups are not part of their “all-electric” future.
These condition require constant upkeep to insure the reliability of the power grid.
You really need to stay on top of maintenance to prevent failures because failures cause shorts and transformer explosions that start fires.
You also have to trim trees to make sure that they don't contact the lines and pull them down and clear the area under the lines of combustible brush that be ignited by the sparks form line failures.
None of this was done on an adequate schedule to prevent the wild fires.
I heard the other day that some of the California power dates to 1921 and the majority is from the 1970’s
The wind probably caused the faults in the first place.
Ha ha !
“I don’t understand why they don’t bury their lines considering the danger of fire.”
The funds for that were re-allocated to putting up wind turbines and solar panel arrays. Gotta be green, you know.
bookmark.
That’s why they let the trees grow up to touch the power lines, Silly.
How else, besides antifa arsonists, can you a catastrophic fire that BlackRock can use to buy up property for pennies on the dollar?
Shorting out power lines, of course.
To most the commenters here,
The problem is not so much the power companies
As it is the EPA and Democrat Ghia worshipers.
I have something so compare and share with you
Due to regulations formulated by the EPA in CA you cannot clear out or remove fuels from under or around High Voltage power lines.
In WA state it is clear under and quite a few feet either side of their High Voltage lines, same with Hawaii.
In WA state you can gather fallen wood on public lands for personal use(with a permit) same with Hawaii.
Both places get wild fires but both places invest in firebreaks and good public lands management, They don’t let Judges and Democrat politicians (that don’t know squat about forest management, or wild lands) to allow the place to burn down.
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