With multiple wildfires still burning across the county, several Los Angeles power companies have started to try and get ahead of the potentially volatile and erratic flames, working to mitigate additional risks by clearing dry vegetation and protecting valuable power lines.
They've been at work for days, stopping at as many power poles as possible along the edges of the wildfires still burning, the Palisades Fire along the Los Angeles Coast and the Eaton fire in the mountains above Pasadena and Altadena. 'We are way ahead from the fire,' said Connor Norton, one of the PG&E employees working in North Hollywood on Sunday.
They try to spray the substance both as far up the pole as they can, all the while working to spray it into the cracks of each pole, so embers can't latch inside and start a fire.'That way, if or when the fire does make it this way, we don't have to worry about embers catching it,' Norton said. They both know how important the work is, which makes the difficulty all the more rewarding.
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