David Allen: Towers Get a Rise Out of Placid Chino Hills

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IRON GIANTS, people are calling them. They're the tubular, Tinkertoy-like towers rising in Chino Hills courtesy of Southern California Edison, jutting upward from parks and casting shadows over backyards.

The towers are 198 feet tall. That makes homeowners like Chan Tse nervous.

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David Allen: Towers Get a Rise Out of Placid Chino Hills

"The fear of it collapsing on me, it keeps me awake," the auditor told me last week. "Any little noise, I wake up."

I can't blame him. I knocked on his door because a tower appears to loom over his house, no more than 75 feet from his property line (Tse thinks it's closer).

Even when viewed from his front porch, rising from ...

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