Photogrammetry Allegedly Shows LA Eaton Fire Caused by Edison Power
An attorney used a combination of photogrammetry and multiple pieces of video evidence to allege that the devastating Eaton Fire in Los Angeles last month was caused due to the fault of Edison, the local power company.
The Eaton Fire started on January 7 and burned 14,021 acres including large swaths of the populated Altadena and Sierra Madre neighborhoods in Los Angeles. In a video posted by LA Fire Justice, Trial Attorney Mikal Watts describes and shows how he used digital 3D photogrammetry and a group of witness videos to pinpoint the origin of the Eaton fire, which he alleges is the fault of Edison Power.
“We took video from an ARCO gas station provided by Jerry Singleton and used it to create a 3D model of Eaton Canyon through a process called photogrammetry. This technique takes videos and images from different angles and stitches them together to build an exact digital model that recreates the canyon’s shape and details, in essence, a 3D map,” Watts says.