The four transmission lines in the area where the Eaton Fire is believed to have started are part of the backbone of a larger delivery system. "You can't isolate this decision to this one line ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles wildfires. Some were sent to too many people, some to too few.