LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison has agreed to pay $82.5 million to cover costs and damages from the 2020 Bobcat Fire, what federal officials are calling a record settlement for one of the largest blazes in Los Angeles County.

Federal officials called it the ‘largest-ever wildfire cost recovery settlement by the United States in the Central District of California.’ Edison isn’t admitting fault under

A California utility has agreed to pay the federal government $82.5 million stemming from an enormous 2020 wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert,