Rancho Palos Verdes homes to have power shut off due to land movement

Published: Aug 31, 2024 Duration: 00:03:28 Category: News & Politics

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evening. I'm Susan Hirasuna. We begin in Rancho Palos Verdes, where unprecedented land movement is forcing Southern California Edison to cut power to 140 homes. Residents were only informed about it today. Fox Eleven's Chelsea Edwards is live with the latest. Wow. What a bit of news for these people. Yeah, it's shocking for a lot of people. This is all set to happen at noon tomorrow. This entire neighborhood here in the Portuguese Bend area is now under an evacuation warning because of this. And residents that we talked to say they are angry, they are anxious, and they're feeling really overwhelmed right now. This is totally shocking to us residents. In less than 24 hours, power will be shut off to some 140 homes in this Rancho Palos Verdes community of Portuguese Bend, less than a month after the same properties had their gas cut off because of dangerous land movements. Making this announcement on a Friday night on a holiday weekend, with not even one working day to go scramble and get a generator or do anything to react to, it is totally unthoughtful. Resident Tom Kiefer spoke to us by phone while on vacation with his family. He doesn't believe there's any imminent danger to his neighborhood. Despite the announcement and the evacuation warning, he and his neighbors received. The electric lines have been working perfectly in my neighborhood since I moved there, and they've been maintained, and there's never any incident. Our neighborhood is safe, and now all we're doing is scrambling. I'm buying a generator as we speak. I just placed a contract for an electric solar system. I have no choice. Southern California Edison says the safety of residents is their number one priority. This was an extremely difficult decision. We know how inconvenient it is to be without power. We made this decision because we are very concerned about the safety of this area. Spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy explained the company's reasoning. What happened was that there was a fire last week, and that fire was caused by a downed electrical line. The downed electrical line came down because of land movement, demonstrating the extreme risk that exists within this community right now. This is an unprecedented natural disaster that's going on right here. You know, I don't think we've ever seen anything like this. She says SoCal Edison started notifying residents this was a possibility a few weeks ago. Some residents in neighboring communities have lost their homes due to the sliding land. Others are watching cracks in their walls slowly widen. Everyone's completely mixed. Everyone on bedrock is like, we're fine. Like our house may be cracked here and there, but we're okay. Other houses are as you can see, like completely destroyed. So we're just trying to keep positive and just hope it doesn't increase rapidly. Everyone living in the power shut off zone appears frustrate. Now, an emergency assistance center is being set up for tomorrow. That's going to go from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m, and that's at the Ladera Linda Community Center. Now, this is really important for everybody in the affected area, for all these homes that will have the power shut off, off. Officials are saying do not use the water or plumbing after it is shut off because that could lead to a potential sewage spill. So there's just a lot that people are digesting here. Now, anybody who needs medical assistance or just more information can go to the Southern California Edison website. I think we can put it at the bottom of your screen. It's w w w dot sec .com backslash rpv. They say you can get all the information that you need there. Reporting live fro

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