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The day started with a press conference in downtown LA, Bill O'Saley, the acting U.S. attorney,

announcing they have a suspect arrested in the Palisades fire, and the whole story was not what

anybody expected. Michael Monks was there. Yeah, I was at this press conference,

and it was a bit of information because we finally know, according to these allegations,

the origin of the Palisades fire. And what is, dare I say, interesting, I'm trying

not to be insensitive because obviously the Palisades fire was deadly and destructive.

But what we really learned today was the origin of a much smaller fire called the Lockman Fire.

This was a fire that started in the early minutes after midnight on New Year's Day this year.

A guy named Jonathan Rindernecht allegedly was hanging out up in the palisades and started a fire.

This fire grew, firefighters came, suppressed it, but it was not fully out.

And days later, when the Santa Ana winds blew in, that Lockman fire gained so much strength

and morphed into the palisites fire. So it continued to smolder for a week. That's what we learned

today. There's still a heat coming from it and all the way down to the roots, the underground roots.

This thing was basically buried underground as the way that it was described today.

And the firefighters, one of the comments that was made by the federal officials who were making

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