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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Laura Coates Live.

Firefighters are on alert for potential flare-ups around L.A.

Powerful winds that could kick up embers and spark new fires that are still a threat for the next 24 hours. But so far, the gusts have actually not been as strong

as they feared. Now, investigators are trying to get to the bottom of the question that's on everyone's

mind. How did all of this happen? What started the two most destructive fires in Southern California history?

Now, we know the dry brush and the high winds help fuel the flames.

You can see here just how fast the Palisades fire grew.

What started more than a week ago has spread and spread and spread. It's now burned more than 23,000 acres. That's more than 37 square miles,

killing at least nine people for that fire alone, scorching 5,000 structures. It's currently,

this fire in particular, 18% contained. But what was the source of

that initial spark? Well, the first signs of the inferno were actually early on Tuesday, January 7th.

Cal Fire says that it started around 10.30 in the morning. Now, this video shows smoke rolling

off the hills around the Palisades minutes after 1030. Now, this video shows smoke rolling off the hills around the Palisades minutes after 1030.

Now, this satellite image was taken at 1037.

Now, at that point, the fire was a tiny fraction of what it would eventually go on to become.

And now we're learning the Palisades fire appears to have started very close to another blaze that broke out just six days earlier on New Year's Day.

This is the burn scar from that fire from a satellite image on January 1st.

Here's that same burn scar on the image on the Palisades fire.

It's less than 300 yards from where it looks like the Palisades blaze began. Now, people are asking, could the winds have

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