🚨 Over 26,000 Long Beach residents were left with no power — and no AC — in the middle of a brutal heatwave on Aug. 23 after an underground electrical vault fire. Amy Hernandez, a local and nurse care manager, said the outage left elderly and vulnerable neighbors stranded in the dark. This isn’t an isolated breakdown. Southern California Edison’s equipment has been tied to chronic heatwave failures and the deadly 2025 Eaton Fire. Yet parent company Edison International, SCE’s parent company, reported a $4.46 billion profit for 2025 and gave its CEO a 20% raise.
