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Starting at about 6:18 p.m. below Edison transmission towers in Eaton Canyon, the wind-driven fire swept into Altadena, burning 14,021 acres, destroying 9,419 structures and killing 19 people.

CAL FIRE declared the Eaton Fire 100% contained on 31 January 2025 at 14,021 acres, after it had destroyed 9,419 structures in Altadena and Pasadena and killed 19 people.

Los Angeles County sued SCE and Edison International alleging their equipment started the Eaton Fire, seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars for destroyed parks, roads, cleanup and lost taxes.

Six months after the fires, Governor Newsom declared the public cleanup of more than 10,000 burned parcels in the Palisades and Eaton zones substantially complete, the fastest major disaster cleanup in US history.

Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison in Los Angeles federal court, alleging its equipment sparked the Eaton Fire and seeking more than $40 million for fighting it and restoring 8,000 acres of Angeles National Forest.

Southern California Edison began taking claims in a voluntary program that pays Eaton Fire survivors for lost homes, smoke damage, injury and death in exchange for not suing, open until 30 November 2026.

After an 18-month investigation with CAL FIRE, LA County Fire concluded that electrical arcing on an out-of-service Southern California Edison tower in Eaton Canyon dropped molten metal that started the Eaton Fire.

The first test trial in the mass lawsuit against Southern California Edison over the Eaton Fire, with eight plaintiffs, opens before Judge Laura Seigle in Los Angeles Superior Court.