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On Wednesday, the Federal Investigators concluded a fire in Pacific Palisades, and officials hope to help them determine the cause of the January fire, which killed ten people and destroyed thousands of homes.
Nearly four months of the American alcohol office, tobacco, firearms and explosives began to investigate the Palisades fire, the investigators set fire to parts of Temescal Ridge Trail between Skull Rock and Green Peak on Tuesday evening to Wednesday.
Captain Eric Scott in Los Angeles announced on Wednesday that ATF “concluded the fire test along the Temescal Ridge road in the Santa Monica Mountains.”
“The process after the systematic test has confirmed that all the materials are cold and extinguished,” Scott said.
The fire test was expected to work until Thursday, according to ATF. The test results have not been disclosed immediately.
Investigators are trying to determine the point of the minute Palisades Fire and how, during the huge wind storm, races from hills to the ocean.
“The flame site, the size of the flame is useful,” said Matthew Bells, a special agent with ATF. “It is like playing a movie in the opposite direction. You are trying to return it to the smallest spot in a reasonable degree of scientific certainty.”
Officials believe that the Palisades fire was first discovered at about 10:30 am on January 7, as the strong winds sent the race to the dry terrain. The sources familiar with the investigation say that a lot of focus was on whether the 8 -acre fire was ignited by fireworks a week ago, as firefighters thought they had been extinguished in the same area.
On January 1, a Lachman fire was reported around 12:17 am in the hill over Pacific Palisades by one of the residents whose home is about two masses of the famous Trail Rock Trail. Sources with the knowledge of the investigation that were not authorized to speak publicly told the Times that the Lachman fire seemed to have been ignited by fireworks.
After a little more than three hours, firefighters reported that they stopped moving forward in the fire.
The fire chief, Joe Everett, who helps in oversee the Western office in Lafeed, which includes Pacific Palisades, said that firefighters performed a cold excessive operation at the site where the teams felt at any continuous heat along the edge of the fire, drilling every direct place, and deported them at the ends of the fire to ensure that nothing later existed.
Investigators did not rule out that the fire was lit on January 7. In any of the scenario, the sources said, the cause of the fire is obtained for humans, because there are no electric poles near the point of the original and the passage of the corridor is well.
In the absence of some reason, some house owners filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Water and Authority in Los Angeles, claiming that the utility failed to properly prepare for fires and respond when it erupted.