Some Pacific Palisades residents are wondering if the devastating Palisades Fire is connected to a New Year’s Day blaze in the same area. ATF investigators continue to look at a hillside above a neighborhood in the Palisades Highlands area as a potential starting point for the horrific fire.

The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.

I don’t know if you’ve ever been camping, but when you go camping and put a fire out, that doesn’t mean that it’s not hot below. Then the Santa Anas came on Monday, and that’s what started,