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A man was arrested in Florida on charges of intentionally igniting what would become California's devastating Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and wiped out a wealthy enclave of Los Angeles at the start of the year, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday (October 8). According to prosecutors, Jonathan Rinderknecht started a fire near a hiking trail in the mountains near Pacific Palisades a few minutes after midnight on January 1 after he completed a shift driving an Uber car. Los Angeles firefighters had thought they had quickly extinguished that blaze, known as the Lachman Fire. But it erupted anew on January 7 after smoldering underground for a week, becoming the Palisades Fire, according to federal investigators. Rinderknecht, 29, repeatedly called 911 on January 1 before successfully connecting to report the blaze, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. He also recorded videos on his phone of firefighters attempting to extinguish the blaze. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the cause of the fire with the Los Angeles fire and police departments. Rinderknecht later spoke with investigators for several hours, and made conflicting statements about whether he smoked cigarettes near the trail that night, the complaint said. The fire scorched more than 23,000 acres (9,308 hectares), decimating Pacific Palisades, a mostly wealthy residential neighborhood overlooking the ocean. (Production: Alan Devall, Jane Ross) For more ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • ABS-CBN News   For more News Digital News Raw Cuts, click the link below:    • News Digital Raw Cuts 2025   For more Breaking News & Live Coverage videos, click the link below:    • Breaking News & Live Coverage   For more latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • The latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN ...   Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook:   / abscbnnews   Twitter:   / abscbnnews   Instagram:   / abscbnnews   #LA #Fire #California #PalisadesFire #ABSCBNNews