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The inferno seriously damaged Beutner’s house, forcing him and his family to rent elsewhere in the neighborhood, and destroyed his mother-in-law’s home entirely.

Prosecutors allege that Rinderknecht “maliciously set” a brush fire just after midnight on Jan. 1 that eventually grew into the deadly inferno.

As firefighters waged a high-stakes battle against a raging inferno in Pacific Palisades last January, crews desperate for water ran into a series of problems, some that are still coming to light.

She blames Los Angeles fire officials for not doing more to prevent it from flaring into the inferno that tore through the community days later.

Ash still clings to the windowsills of the gray home in Altadena, nine months after an inferno ripped the community apart.