Electric utility Xcel Energy admits that its equipment likely helped ignite the devastating Smokehouse Creek Fire that’s blazed across Texas since last week. “Xcel Energy has been cooperating with the investigations into the wildfires and has been conducting its own review. Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire,” the company said in a statement today.
The plaintiffs claim that a power line pole owned by Xcel subsidiary Southwestern Public Service Company fell and started a fire. Xcel doesn’t specifically mention the pole in its statement today. “Xcel Energy disputes claims that it acted negligently in maintaining and operating its infrastructure; however, we encourage people who had property destroyed by or livestock lost in the Smokehouse Creek Fire to submit a claim to Xcel Energy through our claims process,” the statement says.
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