SCE considering power shutdowns during high-danger fire conditions

Southern California Edison, with about one-quarter of its 50,000-square-mile territory labeled high fire risk, is renewing its emphasis on preemptive strikes in which the giant utility shuts off power to customers as a precaution.
The Rosemead-based investor-owned utility is also using new tools to predict and respond to wildfires, including mountain-top cameras that spy on blazes and weather stations on power poles transmitting data into networked computers to be analyzed at a new operations ce