California wildfires: investigators explore possible link between new year’s fireworks and Palisades blaze
California wildfires: investigators explore possible link between new year’s fireworks and Palisades blaze
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Questions raised of whether Palisades fire is connected to earlier fire put out new year’s day, with possible human origins. As efforts continue to put out two massive firestorms that are ravaging Los Angeles, officials have started to investigate the cause and origin of the blazes that have killed at least 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
Multiple reports have explored a developing theory that the Palisades fire is connected to an earlier fire that was put out in the early hours of new year’s day. The fire started just after midnight of 2025 in an area similar to where the Palisades fire began. Sources who spoke anonymously to the Los Angeles Times said that investigators are aware that the fire’s origins are close to the site of the new year’s fire.
The area has a trail that is frequented by the public, raising questions of whether the fire has human origins. Investigators are exploring whether the new year’s blaze was caused by fireworks, though officials have not determined a cause for the fire, which was put out at about 4.30am on new year’s day. Wind conditions on that day were much calmer than what the area would see a few days later, when the fires started.
A resident of the area, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Washington Post that an investigator – who was knocking on doors in the neighborhood after the new year’s fire – suggested that the small fire was caused by people who were on the trail. The resident said that his family heard fireworks in the area where the fire was started on new year’s.
