California Utility Pays $22 Million to Settle Federal Claims over 2016 Wildfire July 10, 2023 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison and two other companies have paid $22 million to settle U.S. government claims...
Judge Grills PG&E Over Cable That Failed Before Massive Wildfire November 5, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt A federal judge overseeing the probation of utility giant PG&E Corp. is demanding information on a power line that failed...
One Massive Blackout Is Over, Now California Braces for the Next October 14, 2019 By Lynn Doan, Mark Chediak and Hailey Waller An unprecedented blackout that plunged millions of Californians into the darkness for days is over. And nobody can say when...
ConEd Starts to Shed Light on Why NYC Got Plunged Into the Dark July 16, 2019 By Will Wade and David Baker It started with a broken cable. Sometime before 6:47 p.m. on Saturday, a 13,000-volt underground power line at New York...
Kentucky Fire Captain Hurt in Ice Bucket Challenge Dies September 22, 2014 A central Kentucky firefighter injured in an “ice bucket challenge” has died a month after a power line shocked him...
Oregon Worker Rescued after Lift Contacts Power Line June 20, 2011 Corvallis, Ore. firefighters rescued a construction worker who suffered an electrical shock when he was trapped in a motorized lift...