TV, phone companies also liable in Maui fires, lawyers say

After a visit to a warehouse where Hawaiian Electric is housing power poles and electrical equipment that may be key to the investigation of August’s devastating fires on Maui, lawyers for Lahaina residents and business owners told a court Tuesday that cable TV and telephone companies share responsibility for the disaster because they allegedly overloaded and destabilized some of the poles.

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