Overview
- Dozens gathered outside SCE’s 24th Annual Black History Month celebration in Irwindale, urging larger, immediate housing support for families from Altadena, Pasadena and Sierra Madre.
- SCE says it has received 2,405 claims and issued 593 offers totaling over $183 million through its Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program, which requires participants to forgo litigation.
- Demonstrators called for an Urgent House Relief Program providing $200,000 per household and for SCE to redirect what they describe as $21 billion in state-allocated wildfire relief funds.
- The company has recorded roughly $1 billion in Eaton Fire liabilities to date, reduced some executive bonuses and donated $2 million to the Pasadena Community Foundation, steps survivors say fall short of community needs.
- SCE acknowledged an L.A. County District Attorney probe and said its equipment was likely associated with the fire’s ignition even as it sues county agencies and anticipates potentially tens of thousands of claims across about 18,000 eligible properties.