Southern California Edison Responds to Wildfires in Service Territory
December 05 2017 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
A number of wildfires are currently affecting customers and
electric service in Southern California Edison’s (SCE) service
territory. SCE crews and field personnel are attempting to make
damage assessments, but are being hampered by fire conditions in
certain areas.
“Our priority is to ensure the safety of our employees and
customers,” said Kevin Payne, chief executive officer of SCE. “We
have mobilized additional resources to the impacted areas and we
are working to restore electric service to our customers as quickly
and safely as possible. Our thoughts and concerns are with everyone
affected by these wildfires.”
SCE initiated proactive measures over the weekend as weather
forecasts indicated elevated fire risks. This included the
mobilization of a full Incident Management Team, the pre-staging of
critical field personnel and the implementation of measures to
mitigate impacts of high winds. SCE continues to actively
manage the impact of the fires to its electric systems as well as
to its customers. The company remains in close coordination with
fire agencies and other first responders to ensure employee and
public safety.
Transmission lines will continue to be threatened as the fires
continue to burn along transmission paths, possibly causing
additional power interruptions. A local transmission emergency was
declared by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) due
to the loss of critical transmission lines serving the Ventura and
Santa Barbara area.
SCE’s priority is to restore the transmission system or reroute
power from unaffected areas to impacted customers. Some customers
in fire-affected areas should be prepared to be without power for
days or experience intermittent outages for the next few days
because of damage caused by the fire. SCE appreciates its
customers’ patience as the company works safely to restore power to
affected areas. During this period, we ask customers in and around
the affected areas to conserve electricity whenever possible. For
safety’s sake, always consider downed power lines as live or
energized, never touch or approach a downed power line, and call
911.
Based on the apparent location of the origin of both the Thomas
fire in the Ventura and Santa Barbara area and the Creek Fire in
Sylmar, and the performance of SCE’s system, SCE has no indication
that the company’s facilities were a source of these fires. There
continues to be a persistent threat of additional fires due to this
severe weather event including the emergent Rye fire in the Santa
Clarita area; and the company is unaware of the source of ignition
of this new fire at this early stage. CAL FIRE will be conducting a
thorough investigation.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California
Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a
population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer
accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central,
Coastal and Southern California.
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