Arrest made in Palisades fire, sources say
Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officials will make their announcement after a nine month investigation.
The leading theory has held that the fire was a rekindling of an earlier fire that broke out Jan. 1 in the same location. Experts speculated that winds restarted the fire Jan. 7, burning thousands of homes and killed a dozen people.
The first fire, called the Lachman fire, was reported about 12:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day in the hillside above Pacific Palisades by a resident whose home is about two blocks from the popular Skull Rock trail. Sources with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to speak publicly told The Times that the Lachman fire appeared to have been sparked by fireworks.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/palisades-fire-arrest
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