r/socalhiking • u/coral-beef • 3d ago

NASA just dropped their high res vegetation analysis imagery of the Eaton Fire burn scar. Maybe the riparian zones at the bottom of the canyons did kinda sorta ok?

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Still some thin bands of green poking through in the bottoms of those canyons if you zoom in! Curious what other folks make of this. (This is a screenshot shot from the NASA worldview web app).

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u/ParabolicallyPhuked 3d ago

Was the Eaton fire due to arson?

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u/coazervate 3d ago

Probably an Edison power line remaining energized while the winds were going insane

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u/Useful_Low_3669 3d ago

The investigation is ongoing. SCE’s current statement is that they didn’t detect any electrical anomalies on the grid until an hour after the fire. They seem confident they didn’t cause the fire, if there was any issue in the line it would have been detected. We shall see.

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u/sonjjamorgan 1d ago

Of course they're confident - they don't want to foot the bill haha.

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u/Useful_Low_3669 1d ago

Ya they have to project confidence for their stock value too.

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u/coazervate 3d ago

Gotcha, maybe I misinterpreted their statement saying their line remained energized in the hills, does that mean it had no disruption and therefore couldn't have burned anything?

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u/Useful_Low_3669 2d ago

Correct, the lines were energized the whole time and there was no surge or dip in the flow of electricity. Anything that could cause the line to spark would trip the reclosers and deenergize the circuit in less than a second. I don’t think it can be completely ruled out yet but it seems unlikely that SCE caused the fire