LOS ANGELES (CN) — A 30-year-old man went on trial Wednesday on charges he started a brush fire in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2025, that a week later morphed into the Palisades Fire — the most destructive firestorm in the history of the city of Los Angeles.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew O’Brien told the jury in downtown LA during his opening statement that the Palisades Fire was a so-called holdover fire of the one Jonathan Rinderknecht started shortly after midnight on Jan. 1.
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