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* A 29-year-old Florida man and former Pacific Palisades resident is charged with starting a New Year’s Day fire that became the deadly Palisades Fire Jan. 7. * Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested Tuesday in Florida and charged by federal prosecutors with destruction of property by means of fire. * The New Year’s Day fire smoldered for days in the dense root structure in the LA County coastal community and was fanned by a Jan. 7 windstorm, authorities say. * The suspect was in the Pacific Palisades area on the night of Dec. 31 after working as an Uber driver and dropping off a passenger in the neighborhood, prosecutors say. * Witness statements, a ChatGPT profile, video surveillance, cellphone data, and an analysis of fire dynamics and patterns at the scene were part of t

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