L. A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, center, shakes hands with Acting Secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency Mike Dayton, right, with Assemblyman Anthony Portantino on the left as they leave the Altadena Golf Course on Friday, December 9, 2011. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer, Pasadena Sun)
by Bill Kisliuk
Pasadena Sun
State emergency management officials started Thursday’s tour of wind storm damage at the Altadena Town and Country Club, looking at downed trees and getting an earful from local politicians about Southern California Edison’s slow efforts to restore power to nearly 434,000 customers.
Edison fully restored power to all customers Thursday morning, more than a week after 80-mile-per-hour winds downed trees and caused damage throughout the San Gabriel Valley. The California Public Utilities Commission has launched a probe of Edison’s response.
“They tried to do it solo,” Supervisor Mike Antonovich told Mike Dayton, the acting director of the California Emergency Management Agency.
“Solo doesn’t work,” replied Dayton.
UPDATED PICTURE: Supervisor Antonovich, Altadena Golf Course Managing Partner Doug Colliflower, State Senator Carol Liu and California Emergency Management, Acting Secretary Michael Dayton. Photo by Antonvich's office.
