An electrical company has chimed in on a worrying new notion about what may have ignited the Los Angeles flames. Firefighters were able to put out three of the eight fires that were reported in the Los Angeles area. Overnight, the figure has fallen to three flames blazing in LA.

The death toll has now increased to 16, with over 10,000 homes and other structures destroyed.

Palisade and Eaton are two of the largest flames, covering more than 30,000 acres, according to The Independent.

A company that monitors electrical activity has since announced that faults in the Los Angeles power grid spiked dramatically during the same week that wildfires wreaked devastation in California.

Palisade and Eaton are two of the largest flames, covering more than 30,000 acres, according to The Independent. The LA wildfires are inflicting massive devastation. (Apu Gomes / Getty Images) The LA wildfires are inflicting massive devastation. (Apu Gomes/ Getty Images)) A company that monitors electrical activity has since announced that faults in the Los Angeles power grid spiked dramatically during the same week that wildfires wreaked devastation in California. Advert Bob Marshall, the CEO of Whisker Labs, has spoken to Fox News about the unfolding problem, stating that a sharp increase in faults in the same area where the flames are burning was recorded just hours before the fires began. “Faults are caused by cables blowing or tree limbs hitting wires and touching. That creates a spark in a fault, and we detect all of those things,” he explained to the outlet.

Marshall’s company is able to work with the electric utility grid through ‘extraordinary precision and accuracy’, allowing him to make judgements effectively. “In the case of the Eaton Fire near Altadena, there’s 317 grid faults that occurred in the hours preceding the ignition,” he added.

“In the Hurst Fire, we measured about 230 faults on the sensor network.” Investigations into how the fires started are ongoing, but jumps in faults could provide some answers. Officials have not confirmed Marshall’s theory.

Marshall went on to state, “Importantly, we cannot say whether one of those faults caused the fire.” We don’t know that. “What we know from our data is that there were increasing faults in the grid in the area around where those fires ignited.” The electric expert went on to claim that the power was not turned off promptly after the faults had escalated. “But, once again, we can’t determine clearly if one of those errors sparked the fire. “I want to be very, very clear about that,” he said to Fox News.