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  1. Had the honor of attending a wedding of a friend who lost their home in the #EatonFire. Instead of getting married in a traditional setting, they waited until the ash and debris was clear, and decided to host their wedding at the site of her childhood home. They will immediately begin rebuilding after this is done.

    #ALTADENA FOREVER.
    #ALTADENASTRONG

  2. Had the honor of attending a wedding of a friend who lost their home in the #EatonFire. Instead of getting married in a traditional setting, they waited until the ash and debris was clear, and decided to host their wedding at the site of her childhood home. They will immediately begin rebuilding after this is done.

    #ALTADENA FOREVER.
    #ALTADENASTRONG

  3. Had the honor of attending a wedding of a friend who lost their home in the #EatonFire. Instead of getting married in a traditional setting, they waited until the ash and debris was clear, and decided to host their wedding at the site of her childhood home. They will immediately begin rebuilding after this is done.

    #ALTADENA FOREVER.
    #ALTADENASTRONG

  4. Via Supervisor Barger:
    "Fire survivors, in partnership with a UCLA research team, are building the nation’s first public record of which insurers paid what they owed, which left families underinsured, how companies are handling smoke damage, and which insurers delayed, denied, or underpaid. The survey takes about 15 minutes and every kind of experience matters, including if your insurer did right by you..."

    #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

    efsurvivors.net/firesurvey

  5. Via Supervisor Barger:
    "Fire survivors, in partnership with a UCLA research team, are building the nation’s first public record of which insurers paid what they owed, which left families underinsured, how companies are handling smoke damage, and which insurers delayed, denied, or underpaid. The survey takes about 15 minutes and every kind of experience matters, including if your insurer did right by you..."

    #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

    efsurvivors.net/firesurvey

  6. Via Supervisor Barger:
    "Fire survivors, in partnership with a UCLA research team, are building the nation’s first public record of which insurers paid what they owed, which left families underinsured, how companies are handling smoke damage, and which insurers delayed, denied, or underpaid. The survey takes about 15 minutes and every kind of experience matters, including if your insurer did right by you..."

    #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

    efsurvivors.net/firesurvey

  7. Via Supervisor Barger:
    "Fire survivors, in partnership with a UCLA research team, are building the nation’s first public record of which insurers paid what they owed, which left families underinsured, how companies are handling smoke damage, and which insurers delayed, denied, or underpaid. The survey takes about 15 minutes and every kind of experience matters, including if your insurer did right by you..."

    #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

    efsurvivors.net/firesurvey

  8. Via Supervisor Barger:
    "Fire survivors, in partnership with a UCLA research team, are building the nation’s first public record of which insurers paid what they owed, which left families underinsured, how companies are handling smoke damage, and which insurers delayed, denied, or underpaid. The survey takes about 15 minutes and every kind of experience matters, including if your insurer did right by you..."

    #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

    efsurvivors.net/firesurvey

  9. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased observer. I live near the foothills, and my insurance rates tripled in 2024 because of fire risk. I had to evacuate because of the #EatonFire, as did many of my friends and coworkers. I know plenty of people whose homes were destroyed. I have followed the investigation into the fire closely.

  10. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased observer. I live near the foothills, and my insurance rates tripled in 2024 because of fire risk. I had to evacuate because of the #EatonFire, as did many of my friends and coworkers. I know plenty of people whose homes were destroyed. I have followed the investigation into the fire closely.

  11. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased observer. I live near the foothills, and my insurance rates tripled in 2024 because of fire risk. I had to evacuate because of the #EatonFire, as did many of my friends and coworkers. I know plenty of people whose homes were destroyed. I have followed the investigation into the fire closely.

  12. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased observer. I live near the foothills, and my insurance rates tripled in 2024 because of fire risk. I had to evacuate because of the #EatonFire, as did many of my friends and coworkers. I know plenty of people whose homes were destroyed. I have followed the investigation into the fire closely.

  13. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased observer. I live near the foothills, and my insurance rates tripled in 2024 because of fire risk. I had to evacuate because of the #EatonFire, as did many of my friends and coworkers. I know plenty of people whose homes were destroyed. I have followed the investigation into the fire closely.

  14. But fires are still a worry even without negligent utilities, so skyrocketing insurance rates are going to push homeowners in the right direction anyway. Meanwhile, utilities are responsible for starting a large fraction of the most devastating wildfires in California history, and indemnifying them just rewards them for failing to maintain their infrastructure.

    #EatonFire

  15. But fires are still a worry even without negligent utilities, so skyrocketing insurance rates are going to push homeowners in the right direction anyway. Meanwhile, utilities are responsible for starting a large fraction of the most devastating wildfires in California history, and indemnifying them just rewards them for failing to maintain their infrastructure.

    #EatonFire

  16. But fires are still a worry even without negligent utilities, so skyrocketing insurance rates are going to push homeowners in the right direction anyway. Meanwhile, utilities are responsible for starting a large fraction of the most devastating wildfires in California history, and indemnifying them just rewards them for failing to maintain their infrastructure.

    #EatonFire

  17. But fires are still a worry even without negligent utilities, so skyrocketing insurance rates are going to push homeowners in the right direction anyway. Meanwhile, utilities are responsible for starting a large fraction of the most devastating wildfires in California history, and indemnifying them just rewards them for failing to maintain their infrastructure.

    #EatonFire

  18. But fires are still a worry even without negligent utilities, so skyrocketing insurance rates are going to push homeowners in the right direction anyway. Meanwhile, utilities are responsible for starting a large fraction of the most devastating wildfires in California history, and indemnifying them just rewards them for failing to maintain their infrastructure.

    #EatonFire

  19. I can kind of understand the justification. There are real worries about what would happen to customers if liability from something like the #EatonFire drove one of the big utilities bankrupt. Meanwhile, the increased insurance rates would mostly hit homeowners in fire-prone areas, where they might encourage more fire-resistant construction and landscaping. It kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too hard.

  20. I can kind of understand the justification. There are real worries about what would happen to customers if liability from something like the #EatonFire drove one of the big utilities bankrupt. Meanwhile, the increased insurance rates would mostly hit homeowners in fire-prone areas, where they might encourage more fire-resistant construction and landscaping. It kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too hard.

  21. I can kind of understand the justification. There are real worries about what would happen to customers if liability from something like the #EatonFire drove one of the big utilities bankrupt. Meanwhile, the increased insurance rates would mostly hit homeowners in fire-prone areas, where they might encourage more fire-resistant construction and landscaping. It kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too hard.

  22. I can kind of understand the justification. There are real worries about what would happen to customers if liability from something like the #EatonFire drove one of the big utilities bankrupt. Meanwhile, the increased insurance rates would mostly hit homeowners in fire-prone areas, where they might encourage more fire-resistant construction and landscaping. It kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too hard.

  23. I can kind of understand the justification. There are real worries about what would happen to customers if liability from something like the #EatonFire drove one of the big utilities bankrupt. Meanwhile, the increased insurance rates would mostly hit homeowners in fire-prone areas, where they might encourage more fire-resistant construction and landscaping. It kind of makes sense if you don't think about it too hard.

  24. Utility-caused fires are largely preventable through better line maintenance, but the utilities don't want to spend the money if it can be turned into returns for shareholders instead. Properly assigning liability when that kind of short-sighted thinking causes massively destructive wildfires is apparently the only thing that is capable of getting the utility companies' attention.

    #EatonFire

  25. Utility-caused fires are largely preventable through better line maintenance, but the utilities don't want to spend the money if it can be turned into returns for shareholders instead. Properly assigning liability when that kind of short-sighted thinking causes massively destructive wildfires is apparently the only thing that is capable of getting the utility companies' attention.

    #EatonFire

  26. Utility-caused fires are largely preventable through better line maintenance, but the utilities don't want to spend the money if it can be turned into returns for shareholders instead. Properly assigning liability when that kind of short-sighted thinking causes massively destructive wildfires is apparently the only thing that is capable of getting the utility companies' attention.

    #EatonFire

  27. Utility-caused fires are largely preventable through better line maintenance, but the utilities don't want to spend the money if it can be turned into returns for shareholders instead. Properly assigning liability when that kind of short-sighted thinking causes massively destructive wildfires is apparently the only thing that is capable of getting the utility companies' attention.

    #EatonFire

  28. Utility-caused fires are largely preventable through better line maintenance, but the utilities don't want to spend the money if it can be turned into returns for shareholders instead. Properly assigning liability when that kind of short-sighted thinking causes massively destructive wildfires is apparently the only thing that is capable of getting the utility companies' attention.

    #EatonFire

  29. This plan from Governor Newsom to shift cost for utility-started wildfires onto insurers is a terrible idea. It gives utilities a get-out-of-liability-free card when they negligently start wildfires, removing their biggest incentive for cleaning up their act. Instead, insurance companies and homeowners will be left to clean up the destruction the utility companies cause.

    #EatonFire

    latimes.com/business/story/202

  30. This plan from Governor Newsom to shift cost for utility-started wildfires onto insurers is a terrible idea. It gives utilities a get-out-of-liability-free card when they negligently start wildfires, removing their biggest incentive for cleaning up their act. Instead, insurance companies and homeowners will be left to clean up the destruction the utility companies cause.

    #EatonFire

    latimes.com/business/story/202

  31. This plan from Governor Newsom to shift cost for utility-started wildfires onto insurers is a terrible idea. It gives utilities a get-out-of-liability-free card when they negligently start wildfires, removing their biggest incentive for cleaning up their act. Instead, insurance companies and homeowners will be left to clean up the destruction the utility companies cause.

    #EatonFire

    latimes.com/business/story/202

  32. This plan from Governor Newsom to shift cost for utility-started wildfires onto insurers is a terrible idea. It gives utilities a get-out-of-liability-free card when they negligently start wildfires, removing their biggest incentive for cleaning up their act. Instead, insurance companies and homeowners will be left to clean up the destruction the utility companies cause.

    #EatonFire

    latimes.com/business/story/202

  33. This plan from Governor Newsom to shift cost for utility-started wildfires onto insurers is a terrible idea. It gives utilities a get-out-of-liability-free card when they negligently start wildfires, removing their biggest incentive for cleaning up their act. Instead, insurance companies and homeowners will be left to clean up the destruction the utility companies cause.

    #EatonFire

    latimes.com/business/story/202

  34. LA Times: Key takeaways from investigation into Edison’s role in the deadly Eaton fire

    ".. New details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.

    Investigators say Edison kept power flowing through mountain transmission lines despite “life‑threatening” Santa Ana winds and documented multiple equipment violations.

    With the first negligence trial set for January and Newsom-backed laws limiting utility wildfire liability, survivors warn California is eroding corporate incentives to prevent future catastrophic blazes.

    ..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/business/story/202

    #EatonFire #lawsuit #wildfires

  35. LA Times: Key takeaways from investigation into Edison’s role in the deadly Eaton fire

    ".. New details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.

    Investigators say Edison kept power flowing through mountain transmission lines despite “life‑threatening” Santa Ana winds and documented multiple equipment violations.

    With the first negligence trial set for January and Newsom-backed laws limiting utility wildfire liability, survivors warn California is eroding corporate incentives to prevent future catastrophic blazes.

    ..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/business/story/202

    #EatonFire #lawsuit #wildfires

  36. LA Times: Key takeaways from investigation into Edison’s role in the deadly Eaton fire

    ".. New details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.

    Investigators say Edison kept power flowing through mountain transmission lines despite “life‑threatening” Santa Ana winds and documented multiple equipment violations.

    With the first negligence trial set for January and Newsom-backed laws limiting utility wildfire liability, survivors warn California is eroding corporate incentives to prevent future catastrophic blazes.

    ..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/business/story/202

    #EatonFire #lawsuit #wildfires

  37. LA Times: Key takeaways from investigation into Edison’s role in the deadly Eaton fire

    ".. New details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.

    Investigators say Edison kept power flowing through mountain transmission lines despite “life‑threatening” Santa Ana winds and documented multiple equipment violations.

    With the first negligence trial set for January and Newsom-backed laws limiting utility wildfire liability, survivors warn California is eroding corporate incentives to prevent future catastrophic blazes.

    ..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/business/story/202

    #EatonFire #lawsuit #wildfires

  38. LA Times: Key takeaways from investigation into Edison’s role in the deadly Eaton fire

    ".. New details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.

    Investigators say Edison kept power flowing through mountain transmission lines despite “life‑threatening” Santa Ana winds and documented multiple equipment violations.

    With the first negligence trial set for January and Newsom-backed laws limiting utility wildfire liability, survivors warn California is eroding corporate incentives to prevent future catastrophic blazes.

    ..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/business/story/202

    #EatonFire #lawsuit #wildfires