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According to a report from The Washington Post, the Palisades fire that has burned Los Angeles to ashes and killed at least 8 people may have been started after the site of a previous fire was reignited.

Firefighters extinguished a New Year’s Eve blaze, possibly started by fireworks, in the same location of the devastating fire just six days earlier.

From The Washington Post:

The Post’s analysis showed that the new fire started in the vicinity of the old fire, raising the possibility that the New Year’s Eve fire was reignited, which can occur in windy conditions, experts said.

Residents also told The Post and investigators on scene that firefighters’ response Tuesday was much slower than on New Year’s Eve — a view confirmed by radio transmissions.

From Colorado to California to Hawaii, flare-ups of previous fires, known as reignition, have been the cause of some of the nation’s most catastrophic and deadly wildfires. This past summer, California officials coordinated a social media campaign to warn residents that terrain scorched but seemingly extinguished can spawn deadly new fires for weeks after the old ones appear to have gone out, as fire can smolder almost undetected underground or inside wood.

Despite that — and warnings of an intense and dangerous wind event last week — a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman told The Post on Friday that it was not the department’s practice to maintain patrols of past fire sites, even for a few days after fires have gone cold.

“We know that fires rekindle and transition from smoldering to flaming,” said Michael Gollner, a professor of mechanical engineering and fire scientist at the University of California at Berkeley who reviewed The Post’s materials. “It’s certainly possible that something from that previous fire, within a week, had rekindled and caused the ignition.”

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