Fire that burned almost 250 homes in Ventura County was restart of earlier blaze, officials say

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A fire that burned nearly 250 homes in Ventura County was a rekindling of an earlier blaze that officials failed to fully extinguish, according to an investigation by Ventura County fire officials and prosecutors released Friday.

The findings, announced at a press conference, put more focus on the tactics firefighters use in declaring blazes out, especially after authorities concluded that the destructive Palisades fire was a restart of a Jan. 1 fire that the Los Angeles Fire Department wrongly declared fully out.

The failure to put out the Jan. 1 fire has sparked outrage and a federal investigation.

In the case of the Ventura County fire that eventually grew into the Mountain fir