Santa Rosa Avenue north of Woodbury Road right after the windstorm of 2011.
by Joe Piasecki
Pasadena Sun
Southern California Edison and telecommunications companies violated safety rules and are partially to blame for the lengthy power outages following the massive December windstorms, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission.
The agency’s Consumer Protection and Safety Division found that at least 20 poles and 17 tension-support wires controlled by Edison and telecom companies did not meet state safety requirements, contributing to the scope of the outages.
More than 200 poles snapped in the storm that caused outages to more than 430,000 Edison customers from La Cañada Flintridge to the eastern San Gabriel Valley.
