Chuck Darwin<p>Flaw in Edison’s equipment in Sylmar sparked two major wildfires in last six years, lawyers say </p><p>Southern California Edison’s admission that its equipment may have ignited the Hurst fire in the San Fernando Valley on Jan. 7 <br>is being seized on by lawyers suing the utility company for another fire in the same area nearly six years earlier.</p><p>💥Both the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Saddleridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saddleridge</span></a> Fire in 2019 and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hurst</span></a> Fire this year started beneath an Edison high-voltage transmission line in Sylmar. </p><p>💥The lawyers say faulty equipment on the line ignited both blazes in the same way.</p><p>“The evidence will show that five separate fires ignited at five separate SCE transmission tower bases in the same exact manner as the fire that started the Saddleridge fire,” <br>the lawyers wrote of the Hurst fire in a June 9 filing in Los Angeles Superior Court.</p><p>The lawyers said the January wildfire is “further evidence” that a transmission pylon known as<br>🔥 "Tower 2-5 “ is improperly grounded.”</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SaddleridgeFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaddleridgeFire</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HurstFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HurstFire</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-28/flaw-in-edisons-equipment-sparked-the-deadly-2019-saddleridge-fire-and-the-jan-7-hurst-fire-lawyers-say" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/environment/story/</span><span class="invisible">2025-06-28/flaw-in-edisons-equipment-sparked-the-deadly-2019-saddleridge-fire-and-the-jan-7-hurst-fire-lawyers-say</span></a></p>