FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2017 file photo, a helicopter drops water while trying to keep a wildfire from jumping Santa Ana Road near Ventura, Calif. Southern California Edison said Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, its equipment likely sparked one of two ignition points for Thomas fire, a wildfire that tore through California's central coast last year. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
A utility company says a massive wildfire that destroyed over 280-thousand acres in Southern California last year may have been sparked by electrical equipment. In filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Southern California Edison admitted that its equipment was associated with at least one of two origin points for the Thomas Fire. The blaze across spanned Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and killed two people. It was California’s second largest brush fire ever. Here in Sonoma County, we have yet to see Cal Fire’s report on the cause of the Tubbs Fire.