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 thickets of green chaparral and densely packed homes. Suddenly, he stops. He zooms the camera in to wisps of white smoke rising from the dirt. "It's still smoldering," he whispers - apparently to himself. No firefighters or state park rangers are visible.
ATF and the Los Angeles City Fire Department would like to thank the public for their cooperation during these operations as we determine the fire's origin.