🚨 Electric Substation at #SSFL Tripped 2 Minutes Before Fire Reported
The tremendously destructive #WoolseyFire has been widely reported as beginning “near” Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL or Rocketdyne), but it appears that the fire began on the #Rocketdyne property itself.

"Cal Fire identifies the fire location as E Street and Alfa Road, a location that is in fact on Santa Susana Field Laboratory." -@PSRLA
#CalFire #SSFL #SimiValley #WoolseyFire

"It was recently reported that the '#Chatsworth electric substation' experienced a disturbance two minutes before the fire was reported, but that substation is in fact on Santa Susana Field Laboratory, near that location." -@PSRLA
#SCE #SSFL #SimiValley #WoolseyFire #MalibuFire

"A photograph on Twitter from @[email protected]’s @[email protected] shows the fire starting Thursday afternoon near the same location, which is only about 1,000 yards from the site of the 1959 partial nuclear meltdown of the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) reactor." -@PSRLA
#SSFL #WoolseyFire

Southern California Edison states “Chatsworth substation” suffered an outage at 2:22 pm Thursday, two minutes before #WoolseyFire is reported to have begun. #Chatsworth substation is located “within the larger Boeing Rocketdyne Santa Susana complex,” according to a CPUC document.

"The electrical substation (marked with a circle) is a few hundred yards to the west of where the fire is shown in the Thursday aerial photo as starting, and a few hundred yards to the east of the SRE complex, where the reactor suffered its accident." -@PSRLA #WoolseyFire #SSFL

"The substation had been built in part to provide electricity from the reactor, which was the first reactor to produce commercial electricity for the commercial grid, before it became the first such commercial reactor to suffer a partial meltdown." -@PSRLA #WoolseyFire #SSFL #SFV

“[I]t is ironic an electrical substation built for a reactor that melted down six decades ago may now be associated w/ a catastrophic fire that began on the #SSFL site that is still badly contaminated from that accident & numerous other spills & releases.” -Denise Duffield @[email protected]

"Decades of nuclear & rocket-engine testing activity, including nuclear reactor accidents & other toxic spills & releases, have resulted in widespread contamination throughout SSFL’s 2,850 acre facility." -@PSRLA
*Map of #SSFL offsite soil contamination 1992-94 by SSFL Work Group

"@[email protected], which has regulatory oversight over parties responsible for cleaning contamination, signed legally binding agreements to fully cleanup contamination by 2017. However, cleanup has not even begun & DTSC is considering vastly weaker cleanup plans." -@PSRLA #SSFL

“The #WoolseyFire likely released and spread radiological and chemical contamination that was in SSFL’s soil and vegetation via smoke & ash,” said Dr. Bob Dodge, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles
@[email protected] @[email protected] #SSFL #SimiValley #LosAngeles #CAfire

A statement released by @[email protected] approximately 10 hours after the fire began said the agency doesn’t believe the fire caused the release of hazardous substances.
#WoolseyFire #SSFL #SimiValley #LosAngelesFire #BelieveInScience