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Federal prosecutors’ announcement on Wednesday that the Jan. 7 Palisades fire was a flare-up of a small arson fire that firefighters thought they had contained six days earlier has raised concerns among some residents about how Los Angeles fire officials handled the smaller conflagration.

The first fire, called the Lachman fire, was reported about 12:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day on a hillside above Pacific Palisades by a resident whose home is about two blocks from the popular Skull Rock trail.

Shortly after 3:30 a.m., Los Angeles Fire Dept. officials reported they had stopped forward progress of the blaze, a federal investigation found. A little over an hour later, the LAFD repor

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