Texas' largest-ever wildfire that killed at least 2 apparently ignited by power company facilities, company says
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Xcel Energy said that "its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek Fire," the largest-ever wildfire in Texas that's burned nearly 1.1 million acres.
  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    The woman said in the lawsuit that the fire ignited on Feb. 26 when one of their poles broke …

    Do you know how old and rotten a lodgepole pine electrical pole has to be to break???

    Jfc. Keep up with your gd maintenance ffs!

    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Replacing critically deficient infrastructure has been declared a progressive issue in todays overton window. So no chance places like Texas do it.

  • Wooster@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I swear, Texas’s grid is the sort of thing that would’ve been written out of a dystopian novel for being too cartoonishly evil.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I know you’re just trying to dunk on Texas, but Hutchinson County, where they’re saying this happened, is part of the Eastern Interconnect, not the Texas Interconnect. Much of the panhandle is not part of ERCOT