Officials have put a face to the start of the deadly Palisades Fire. Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old former Uber driver living in Florida, has been arrested and charged with federal arson for allegedly setting a fire in January that became the Palisades blaze, the Los Angeles Times reported. Rinderknecht, who reportedly lived in the L.A. area before moving to Florida this year, allegedly dropped off a passenger in the Pacific Palisades near where a fire was later discovered to have started just after midnight on Jan. 1. The 29-year-old purportedly walked up a hiking trail, took videos on his phone […]
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