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Federal prosecutors this week revealed extensive details about the cause of a Jan. 1 fire in Pacific Palisades that six days later roared to life as the Palisades fire.

There were two major findings from the federal investigation:

Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, allegedly set the fire after dropping off passengers late on Dec. 31 in the Palisades.

Fire crews thought they had extinguished the fire, called the Lachman fire, on Jan. 1 but in fact it was still smoldering.

There are many unanswered questions that are likely to come into focus in the coming days and weeks. One question is Rinderknecht’s alleged motive and how he actually started the fire. The second is whether t

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