What we know about the start of the palisad fire

How civil servants the cause of the examination Palisads fire in South CaliforniaThe investigators focused on a popular hiking trail in Los Angeles, where another fire had burned six days earlier.

A CBS news analysis of satellite images and photos that are shared by the inhabitants shows that the fire of the Palisades is probably near where the other fire, the Lachman fire, broke out on January 1.

While the Lachman fire was limited to eight acres and did not destroy any structures, the Palisades Fire, which broke out on the morning of January 7th, exploded as Santa Ana Winde Recorded, more than 23,000 acres burned and killed at least eight people according to Cal Fire. In a week, the fire was still contained only 17%.

Officials have not found a cause of the fire of the palisades. The office for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives announced on Monday that 15 investigators used it to work with local, state and state authorities to determine the cause and the original point.

The satellite images from Planet Labs from January 5 show the first traces of charred land, probably from the Lachman fire.

Additional Sentinel-2 satellite images that were recorded on January 7 shows that Rauch is driving from the same area around the Temescal Ridge Trail again.

The Pacific Palisades residents said CBS News that the fire broke out on the morning of January 7 near the Skull Rock Trailhead along the Temescal Ridge Trail in Topanga State Park.

David Hansen evacuated his older mother from her house from the Santa Ynez Reservoir In the Pacific palisades on January 7, Hansen said that his mother’s neighbors told him that the fire of the palisades near the Lachman fire had been triggered. Around 2:30 p.m. on January 7th, he took photos from the 1200 block of the Piedra Morada Drive des Palisad Fire. The Piedra Morada Drive is about seven blocks from which the Lachman fire broke out.

“A thousand percent, it was the same place,” said Hansen.

Zane Mitchell, who had hiked the Temescal Ridge Trail on the morning of January 1, said CBS News that parts of the floor still tried to “still smoke out” through the Burn scar “and a team of firefighters” to design hot spots And to clean up. ”

Mitchell shared photos with CBS News, which he recorded on his hike, in which Rauch was still rising from the ground, hours after the fire brigade from La reported on the fire at 4:46 a.m.

The Los Angeles Times reported that in Southern California a historical precedent for fires, including the Oakland Hills Fire from 1991, which destroyed more than 2,500 structures.

Other youngest fires, including the August 2023 fire On the Hawaiian island of Maui and A December 2021 Fire In Boulder County, Colorado, also headed for persistent hotspots.