{"id":597445,"date":"2023-08-14T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597445"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:32:17","slug":"in-search-for-cause-of-hawaii-wildfires-lawyers-probe-power-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-search-for-cause-of-hawaii-wildfires-lawyers-probe-power-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"In search for cause of Hawaii wildfires, lawyers probe power lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the cause of the deadly Maui fires remains under investigation, lawyers are sending experts to the island to look into utility power lines as being a possible source of ignition. <\/p>\n<p>Attorneys with Watts Guerra, Singleton Schreiber, and Frantz Law Group said they have been collecting evidence, interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing reports that indicate that damaged power infrastructure owned by Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. created the spark for the flames. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll evidence \u2014 videos, witness accounts, burn progression, and utility equipment remaining \u2014 points to Hawaiian Electric\u2019s equipment being the ignition source of the fire that devastated Lahaina,\u201d said <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the cause of the deadly Maui fires remains under investigation, lawyers are sending experts to the island to look into utility power lines as being a possible source of ignition. Attorneys with Watts Guerra, Singleton Schreiber, and Frantz Law Group said they have been collecting evidence, interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing reports that indicate that damaged power infrastructure owned by Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. created the spark for the flames. \u201cAll evidence \u2014 videos, witness accounts, burn progression, and utility equipment remaining \u2014 points to Hawaiian Electric\u2019s equipment being the ignition source of the fire that devastated Lahaina,\u201d said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}