@ai6yr Southern California Edison denies that their equipment started the Eaton Fire. They say that their transmission lines through the area were de-energized. It could still have started in the vegetation beneath the power lines and towers.
@EricFielding Yep, of course. I was deposed as a witness (for both sites) in the Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara County / Ventura County.
@ai6yr @EricFielding Is it SCE or LADWP. I read something yesterday suggesting LADWP didn’t PSPS as readily as SCE.
@EricFielding @ai6yr Thanks. Didn’t know if LADWP had transmission lines thru there too.
@EricFielding for more details regarding the local power lines, check out #OpenInfraMap:
https://openinframap.org/#9.66/34.1593/-118.1534
The pole and lines shown in the photograph are too small to be shown on the map.
@zl2tod zooming in will increase the level of detail…
Unless the lines aren't mapped yet in #OpenStreetMap.
Aye, I tried that and a variety of other mapping sources. None seem to go below the level of major transmission lines.
By contrast in NZ almost every pole is mapped down to street level.
@zl2tod yes, depends a lot on the local #OpenStreetMap community…
Around here, basically every single power line and telecommunication line, pipeline etc. is mapped…
It helps here that there was a big push of Open Government a few years back, so OSM was able to slurp up untold data.
Ironically the folks that plan the deployment of rescue helicopters here don't appear to use such mapping and regularly deploy the choppers to land on power lines.
It's only a matter of time ...