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Hiker’s video shows smoke rising from Lachman fire burn scar Jan. 2, hours after LAFD declared it fully contained and days before catastrophic Palisades rekindle.

Attorneys for fire victims sued California State Parks for failing to adequately monitor the burn scar amid dangerously dry conditions and forecasted extreme Santa Ana winds.

State Parks owned Topanga land where fire reignited, but never inspected the burn scar despite protocols requiring monitoring after fires and warnings of extreme fire weather.

A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps. Below are t

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