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hawaii electric company, accusing them of starting those deadly wildfires. the company already faces numerous negligence lawsuits, but this is the first to say that their utility wires caused that blaze. nbc s steve patterson is on the ground there. what more can you tell us? just that, chris, that their utility caused that fire, that it was the significant wind event and messages that were ignored about the possibility of maybe deenergizing those lines that came down in the wind, in dry brush, all of this was stated by the national weather service. it was really bad weather for fire, and caused those fires. not only that, but there was deepening allegations of negligence going back years that the it should have been hardened and stabilized, some of the routine maintenance issues were ignored. there was no automatic shutoff, that a lot of utilities carry in case of a wind event.

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