One person was arrested in October 2025 in connection to the Palisades Fire , one of the Los Angeles Country’s most destructive wildfires in history. The inferno upended thousands of residents ‘ lives in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and multiple fires spread throughout different areas of Southern California in the first week of January 2025. Nine months after the Palisades Fire was contained, a man named Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested for allegedly igniting the initial fire.

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli , announced that Rinderknecht had been arrested on October 8, 2025.

“A single person’s recklessness caused one of the worst fires Los Angeles has ever seen, resulting in death and widespread destruction in Pacific Palisades,”

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