{"id":73080,"date":"2026-05-05T07:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/man-accused-of-starting-palisades-fire-was-angry-intense-driving-erratically-lawyers-say\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:59:29","slug":"man-accused-of-starting-palisades-fire-was-angry-intense-driving-erratically-lawyers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/man-accused-of-starting-palisades-fire-was-angry-intense-driving-erratically-lawyers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of starting Palisades fire was \u2018angry, intense, driving erratically\u2019, lawyers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Rinderknecht\u2019s attorneys say he\u2019s being used as scapegoat for Los Angeles fire department\u2019s failure to fully extinguish earlier blaze<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/10\/la-zombie-fire-jonathan-rinderknecht\">accused of sparking the deadly Palisades fire<\/a> in Los Angeles was upset over a failed relationship and his lack of plans for New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 and he ranted about being angry at the world before the initial blaze was ignited, according to court documents filed by prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, has pleaded not guilty to starting what became one of the most destructive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california-wildfires\">wildfires in California<\/a> history. It began on 7 January 2025 in the hillside neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Malibu and killed 12 people. Prosecutors say Rinderknecht started a fire on 1 January that burned undetected deep in root systems before flaring back up a week later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/05\/trial-suspect-palisades-fire-los-angeles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Rinderknecht\u2019s attorneys say he\u2019s being used as scapegoat for Los Angeles fire department\u2019s failure to fully extinguish earlier blaze Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles was upset over a failed relationship and his &#8230; <a title=\"Man accused of starting Palisades fire was \u2018angry, intense, driving erratically\u2019, lawyers say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/man-accused-of-starting-palisades-fire-was-angry-intense-driving-erratically-lawyers-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man accused of starting Palisades fire was \u2018angry, intense, driving erratically\u2019, lawyers say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}