DESTROYED SO FAR. AND THIS IS VIDEO JUST INTO OUR NEWSROOM. IT SHOWS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS ARE FOCUSING ON A SPECIFIC STREET IN THE PALISADES HIGHLANDS AREA. OFFICIALS SAY THIS IS WHERE THEY BELIEVE THE PALISADES FIRE MAY HAVE STARTED. NO OFFICIAL CAUSE OR ORIGIN FOR EITHER OF THE FIRES HAS BEEN RELEASED, BUT NOW WE ARE HEARING ONE THEORY THAT THIS COULD BE A REKINDLING OF A FIRE THAT STARTED BY FIREWORKS ON NEW YEAR맥스카지노�S DAY, AND THIS IS A PHOTO FROM THAT EARLY MORNING FIRE ON JANUARY 1ST. AND THE MAN WHO TOOK IT, 78 YEAR OLD DON GRIFFIN, SAYS THIS IS FROM HIS BACKYARD IN PACIFIC PALISADES. RESIDENTS CALLED 911 ABOUT REPORTS OF FIREWORKS, AND FIREFIGHTERS GOT THAT FIRE UNDER CONTROL. AND THEN THIS IS A PHOTO FROM THAT SAME MAN ON THE DAY OF THE PALISADES FIRE. THOSE FLAMES IGNITING AND PRETTY MUCH WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE EXACT SAME SPOT. ONE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE JOURNALIST SHOWED THE PHOTOS TO A PAIR OF EXPERTS IN WILDFIRE INVESTIGATION, WHO SAY WINDS COULD HAVE REKINDLED THOSE SMOLDERING EMBERS, EVEN SIX DAYS LATER. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THAT REPORTER NOW. MATTHIAS GAFFNEY, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. SO, MATHIAS, YOU SPOKE WITH THE MAN BEHIND THAT PHOTO WHEN YOU FIRST SAW IT, WHAT DID YOU THINK? YEAH, I CAME ACROSS IT. AND I맥스카지노�LL NEVER FORGET IT. HIS HOUSE WAS STILL STANDING AND HE TOLD ME, YOU KNOW, IT STARTED THE BIG PALISADES FIRE STARTED RIGHT IN THE SAME SPOT AS ONE ON NEW YEAR맥스카지노�S. AND I THOUGHT HE MEANT NEW YEAR맥스카지노�S A YEAR AGO. AND HE SAID NO, JUST A FEW DAYS AGO. SO HE WHIPPED HIS PHONE OUT AND HE SHOWED ME BOTH PHOTOS. AND YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE IN THE TERRAIN THE SIMILAR FEATURES. AND IT WAS ALMOST OVERLAPPING THE TWO FIRES. SO IMMEDIATELY I KNEW THAT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING MORE TO THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. NOW, WHEN YOU TALK TO DON GRIFFIN ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE, WAS THERE ANYTHING SURPRISING BEHIND HIS STORY? NO, HE IT WAS. THE PHOTOS ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE HE TOOK IT FROM THE EXACT SAME VANTAGE POINT, HIS BACKYARD. SO YOU HAD IT WASN맥스카지노�T FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES. SO YOU COULD CLEARLY TELL WHERE THEY HAD STARTED. ONCE WE LOOKED INTO THE FIRST FIRE, IT WAS ONLY LIKE A NINE ACRE FIRE, BUT IT WAS SURROUNDED BY REPORTS AND 911 CALLS OF FIREWORKS. SO EVERYTHING HE HAD SAID MATCHED UP AND HIS PHOTO OF THE PALISADES FIRE JANUARY 7TH, ONE WAS TAKEN ONE MINUTE AFTER THE FIRE STARTED, SO WE KNEW WE HAD BOTH FIRES AT THEIR VERY BEGINNING, AND IT WAS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. PHOTOS, VERY IMPORTANT PHOTOS. AND YOU WENT TO THE EXPERTS ON THIS. WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY FROM THE EXPERTS AND WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW, ESPECIALLY ABOUT EMBERS AND HOW LONG THEY CAN STAY ACTIVE? YEAH, TO BE HONEST, I WAS SURPRISED I DIDN맥스카지노�T KNOW HOW TO STORY BECAUSE JANUARY 1ST TO JANUARY 7TH IS SIX DAYS. I맥스카지노�M NOT A FIRE EXPERT. FOR ME, THAT FELT LIKE A LONG TIME FOR A FIRE TO BE SMOLDERING, ESPECIALLY SINCE FIREFIGHTERS SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF THE DAY THERE WETTING IT DOWN. THAT BEING SAID, WHEN I SPOKE TO THE EXPERTS, THEY SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT. SIX DAYS IS NOTHING IN THOSE CONDITIONS WHERE IT맥스카지노�S SUPER DRY, DEAD VEGETATION. THE SOIL IS CRUSTED SO HARD THAT WATER HAS TROUBLE PENETRATING IT. AND EVEN SO, THE FIRE GOES INTO THE ROOTS OF THIS DEAD VEGETATION AND SMOLDERS AS AS LOW AS A FOOT BELOW THE SURFACE. SO TO FULLY GET THAT FIRE COLD IS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY ON STEEP TERRAIN LIKE THAT. AND THEY SAID IT WAS INCREDIBLY PLAUSIBLE THAT IT COULD START EVEN SIX DAYS LATER. I맥스카지노�M JUST CURIOUS, HOW IS DON GRIFFIN RIGHT NOW? WHAT맥스카지노�S HIS EXPERIENCE BEEN LIKE SO FAR? YEAH, HE WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES. HIS HOUSE SURVIVED, ACTUALLY, HIS WHOLE CUL DE SAC FARED PRETTY WELL. THE FIRE CAME. HE HAD INCREDIBLY INTENSE VIDEO OF HIM AND HIS FAMILY AS EMBERS WERE SHOOTING INTO THEIR BACKYARD. AS THE FIRE CREPT UP A VERY STEEP HILL BEHIND HIS STREET. BUT HIS STREET FARED OKAY. HE맥스카지노�S, YOU KNOW, NOT DOING GREAT AS FAR AS LIKE MOST OF HIS NEIGHBORHOOD BELOW HIM, THESE ARE DAMAGED OR THEY LOST THEIR HOMES. BUT HE맥스카지노�S JUST LIKE EVERYONE. EVERYONE맥스카지노�S STILL KIND OF IN A STATE OF SHOCK. AND THOSE NEIGHBORS PARTICULARLY WANT TO HAVE ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THERE. YEAH. AND I DON맥스카지노�T KNOW IF YOU HEARD, MATHIAS THAT THEY ARE NOW. WE JUST GOT VIDEO IN OF THEM. IT LOOKED LIKE IT맥스카지노�S NEAR A VERY PARTICULAR STREET IN PACIFIC PALISADES. BUT THE VIDEO WE HAVE LOOKED LIKE THEY MIGHT BE ON SOME SIDE OF A HILLSIDE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO, I MEAN, IT맥스카지노�S HARD TO TELL BECAUSE THERE맥스카지노�S JUST ASH EVERYWHERE. BUT YEAH, THERE맥스카지노�S THEY맥스카지노�RE DEFINITELY LOOKING INTO IT. AND THOSE PICTURES MAY PROVE TO BE VITAL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPORTING AND INVESTIGATING ON THIS. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. WE APPRECIATE IT. NOW, AT A FIRE BRIEFING EARLIER TODAY, THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT ADDRESSED THE QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE ORIGIN OF THE PALISADES FIRE. RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE THE TASK FORCE THAT IS ROBUST, THAT IS THERE IDENTIFYING CAUSE AND ORIGIN FOR EACH OF THESE SEPARATE FIRES. THERE맥스카지노�S SO MANY OF THEM THERE. NONE HAVE BEEN RULED OUT OF ARSON. THERE ARE ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS, BUT ALSO THE PALISADES FIRE SPECIFICALLY, SINCE THAT맥스카지노�S THE ONE THAT맥스카지노�S STILL RAMPANT IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. THERE맥스카지노�S BEEN NO DEFINITIVE DETERMINATION THAT IT IS ARSON AT THIS POINT. NO WORD O