San Diego utility sued over Norte Fire

Tonight, officials are investigating the cause of the Norte fire, but a new lawsuit claims San Diego Gas and Electric is responsible. The complaint comes as crews continue to contain that fire that destroyed several homes in San Juan Capistrano. A new lawsuit alleges that the Norte fire that broke out in San Clemente and moved to San Juan Capistrano on Friday was caused by San Diego Gas and Electric. Bridgeford, Gleason and Artinian filed a complaint on behalf of a San Juan Capistrano resident who had to evacuate and alleges San Diego Gas and Electric is responsible. Attorneys involved in the lawsuit say the San Diego utility had a power line outage near the ignition point and explain why they believe this is a utility-caused fire. There's been no explanation other than a possibility that this was caused by SDG&E's lines. In terms of the timing of the reports, you have a report of an outage by SDG&E, which was just confirmed today with the CPUC that they filed a report at 1131 a.m. on October 16th was that outage. And then at 1133 was the reported start of the fire. And the location of the ignition of the fire appears to be right in the location of that utility line. Fox 11 reached out to San Diego Gas and Electric for a comment. We are waiting to hear back.