A new report commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom on the spread of the Palisades and Eaton fires suggests that the movement of the Eaton fire from east Pasadena into west Altadena occurred earlier than originally reported, leaving questions on whether evacuation orders should have come sooner.

The Eaton fire, which started at 6:18 p.m. Jan. 7 near high-tension electrical towers in rugged Eaton Canyon, burned homes in east Pasadena, torched rugged terrain in the San Gabriel Mountains, then when winds shifted, moved toward west Altadena as early as 9:20 p.m, according to the Fire Safety Research Institute’s Southern California Fires Timeline Report.

By 10:50 p.m. Jan. 7, there were fire calls for a roof on fire of a home on Calaveras Street in Altadena, two blocks west of Lake Avenue and th

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