Federal authorities announced on Oct. 8 the arrest of a 29-year-old Melbourne, Florida, man, accusing him of deliberately igniting a New Year’s Day fire that later erupted into the devastating Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles, which burned for weeks and killed 12 people.
“A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what eventually became ... one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
