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One person was arrested in October 2025 in connection to the Palisades Fire, one of the Los Angeles Country’s most destructive wildfires in history. The inferno upended thousands of residents‘ lives in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, and multiple fires spread throughout different areas of Southern California in the first week of January 2025. Nine months after the Palisades Fire was contained, a man named Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested for allegedly igniting the initial fire.
Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, announced that Rinderknecht had been arrested on October 8, 2025.
“A single person’s recklessness caused one of the worst fires Los Angeles has ever seen, resulting in death and widespread destruction in Pacific Palisades,” Essayli wrote in a statement. “While we cannot bring back what victims lost, we hope this criminal case brings some measure of justice to those affected by this horrific tragedy.”
Below, learn about Rinderknecht, his arrest and the Palisades Fire.
Today we are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht on a criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what became the Palisades Fire in January.
⁰The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht’s started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year’s Day –… pic.twitter.com/UzrFa0Lmrz— Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) October 8, 2025
The Palisades Fire was caused by a few factors, including the destructive Santa Ana winds and the embers from the January 1, 2025, Lachman Fire, which was contained after burning through eight acres. Six days later, the inferno known as the Palisades Fire ravaged the region of L.A. County.
The arrested suspect accused of causing the Palisades Fire is 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, a former Uber driver. Authorities alleged that Rinderknecht “maliciously” ignited the Lachman Fire on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, which eventually led to the full Palisades Fire less than a week later.
Firefighters contained the Lachman Fire quickly but were unaware that embers would produce the entire Palisades Fire, per NBC News.
According to police, Rinderknecht previously lived in Pacific Palisades. On the night he allegedly ignited the Lachman Fire, two Uber passengers he picked up said he appeared “agitated and angry.” Rinderknecht then drove to Skull Rock Trailhead, where he allegedly set the fire. Sensors in the area indicated the presence of flames shortly after midnight on January 1. Rinderknecht reported the fire by calling 911 and tried to flee but turned back to follow firetrucks toward the trail.
Per Essayli’s October 8 announcement, Rinderknecht’s digital device had an image generated on ChatGPT of a burning city.
More than 6,000 structures were destroyed in the Palisades Fire, which affected both the Pacific Palisades and Malibu neighborhoods of L.A. County.
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On January 7, 2025, a major wildfire erupted in Pacific Palisades and quickly tore through surrounding neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. Fueled by extreme Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions, the blaze became one of the most destructive in the city’s history, scorching tens of thousands of acres and leveling thousands of homes.
The city and state responded swiftly: a local emergency was declared by Los Angeles, and Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for California. With hundreds of thousands evacuated and entire communities in ruins, investigators later revealed that the fire was likely set intentionally, and in October 2025, a suspect was arrested in Florida in connection with starting the blaze.
Below, learn more about which areas were hit hardest, what’s known about the cause, and additional details.
At the start of 2025, California battled a series of fast-moving wildfires that spread across Los Angeles County and surrounding areas, marking one of the most destructive beginnings to a fire season in recent memory. The state saw five major active fires during the first weeks of January, all of which have since been fully contained, according to Cal Fire officials.
Initially, officials believed that strong Santa Ana winds were the primary factor behind the fire’s rapid spread across Los Angeles County. Gusts reaching nearly 100 miles per hour on the night of January 7, 2025, fueled the flames and made containment nearly impossible in the early hours.
However, investigators later determined that the fire was deliberately set. In October 2025, federal authorities arrested Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old man from Florida, in connection with starting the blaze. According to prosecutors, Rinderknecht allegedly ignited a smaller fire—known as the Lachman Fire—on January 1, 2025, which continued to smolder underground before reigniting days later with the help of strong winds, sparking the massive Palisades inferno.
Today we are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht on a criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what became the Palisades Fire in January.
⁰The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht’s started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year’s Day –… pic.twitter.com/UzrFa0Lmrz— Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) October 8, 2025
California wildfires are caused by a combination of natural and human factors. Drought, high temperatures, and strong winds, particularly from the Santa Ana winds, create ideal conditions for fire. Lightning strikes can ignite dry vegetation, while human activities like arson, faulty power lines, and outdoor equipment can trigger flames. Additionally, overgrown vegetation, climate change, and urban sprawl increase fire risk by providing more fuel and bringing wildfires closer to populated areas.
Published on: Sept 18, 2025 06:25 pm IST
Weight loss journeys often feel overwhelming, but sometimes the simplest changes can lead to the biggest results. One woman named Reet Kaur managed to shed 18 kg after switching just 1 thing in her diet, and her transformation proves that consistency and small tweaks can truly pay off. (Also read: Woman who lost 72 kg with eating disorder and ADHD opens up about her weight loss secrets: ‘I stopped labelling food…’ )
Reet shared in her September 17 Instagram post, “To lose weight, you need to be in a calorie deficit (you consume fewer calories than your body burns). But sticking to that deficit can be tough, especially when hunger strikes. Here’s the single change I made in my diet to make it easier, I started volume eating!”
She explained that volume eating is a strategy where you fill your plate with larger portions of low-calorie, high-volume foods, so you stay full without overshooting your calorie intake. This method, she says, helps with weight loss, fat loss, and overall satiety, without leaving you feeling deprived.
Instead of reaching for small portions of calorie-dense snacks like chips or chocolate, Reet suggests focusing on foods that are:
“This allows you to eat more food for fewer calories, helping with hunger control and portion satisfaction,” Reet added.
Note to readers: This report is based on user-generated content from social media. HT.com has not independently verified the claims and does not endorse them.
This article is for informational purposes only and not a substitute for professional medical advice.
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Punjabi superstar AP Dhillon is back with another banger! His brand-new single, ‘Without Me,’ has released and is being loved by thousands. Produced by AP Dhillon, Luca Mauti, and Rebbel (who also co-produced fan favorites like “Dil Nu” and ‘With You”), the track blends heartfelt lyrics with AP’s signature sound, amplified by world-class production. Scroll below to know what the singer has to say about the song.
Talking about the track, AP Dhillon shares, “Without Me started off as a simple idea, but the more I worked on it the more it stuck. I loved the production from the start, and when I played it in Dubai the response was unreal. That energy made me drop it right away, and I know it’s the kind of track that’ll have everyone singing along the next time I perform it.”
The song comes with an intimate yet futuristic music video, directed by Zac Facts, who previously collaborated with AP on visual standouts like ‘Insane’ and ‘Summer High.’ Check out the track here:
AP isn’t just making hits; he’s shaping the sound of a generation. With billions of streams, sold-out shows, and a global fan army, he continues to push Punjabi music beyond borders and into the mainstream.
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Actor Sanjay Dutt’s experience inside prison has left an indelible mark on him. He recently opened up about how his passion for acting helped him cope with his time behind bars. He shared that he formed a theatre group inside the jail, with murder convicts as his actors.
Recently, Sanjay joined Suniel Shetty for a fun outing in Kapil Sharma’s comedy show The Great Indian Kapil Show. During his appearance in the show, Sanjay looked back at time spent inside prison.
Talking about his life, Sanjay said, “I don’t regret anything that has happened in my life. My main regret is that my parents left me too soon. I really miss them.”
Following which, Archana Puran Singh asked Sanjay what he did with the furniture which he built while doing carpentry in jail.
Sanjay responded, “I earned wages there. Whether I made chairs or paper bags, I got paid. Then I even started a radio station, called Radio YCP. It was once played only inside the jail. I was also paid for that. I did the radio program. We had topics to talk about, and we also did some comedy. Three or four other prisoners would write the script for the program.”
“I even started a theatre group, and I was the director and murder convicts were my actors,” he added.
Sanjay is the son of late actors Nargis and Sunil Dutt. He was sentenced to prison by a TADA Court in 2007 for illegal possession of weapons in a 1993 case. After the Supreme Court upheld this decision in 2013, the actor surrendered. He was in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail from 2013-16.
His fans got a glimpse of his life through Rajkumar Hirani’s film Sanju, in which Ranbir Kapoor was seen living his life. In one particular scene in the film, Ranbir as Sanjay was seen in a helpless state due to an overflowing toilet in jail. After completing his sentence, Sanjay came out of prison in 2016 and has since been active in the film industry.
Sanjay tied the knot with Maanayata in 2008. The couple share twins. They currently reside in Dubai, with Sanjay frequently traveling to Mumbai for professional commitments. He was most recently seen in Baaghi 4 which also stars Tiger Shroff, Sonam Bajwa, Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu, Shreyas Talpade, Saurabh Sachdeva, Upendra Limaye, and Sheeba Akashdeep Sabir.
Welcome to It’s a Hit! In this series, IndieWire speaks to creators and showrunners behind a few of our favorite television programs about the moment they realized their show was breaking big.
So many things can go wrong on any given project. When they go right, it means that the creators in charge have made a series of decisions that support the story they want to tell. Netflix’s “Adolescence” broke out way bigger than anyone ever expected, and wound up scoring 13 Primetime Emmy nominations.
Decision 1: Actor and producer Stephen Graham approached his frequent collaborator Jack Thorne (“The Virtues,” “Help”) to write the show.
Decision 2: Thorne convinced Graham to write it with him. “I’ve always thought that he was an actor that had a writer within him,” said Thorne to IndieWire over Zoom. “He is instinctively a storyteller. And so I wanted to find a way to harness that side of his brain and use it. He’s nervous about writing, he’s dyslexic, he doesn’t see himself as a writer, but I thought we could find a way to work together that would allow that side of his brain to flower.”
They met on Zooms; as Graham and Thorne talked things through, Thorne finalized dialogue and typed the script into the computer.
Decision 3: They wrote the show to be shot in four episodes as single long takes. “I want this to be about knife crimes,” Graham told Thorne, “and I want this to be in a single take and four episodes.” During the writing process, Thorne realized that “the single take was changing the way I write. I could see the joy of the incomplete. Where, conventionally, I would tell a story was not possible. Writing this show I realized the damage of that rhythm. This kicked me halfway across the road, and I was seeing traffic come towards me. And Stephen was an army captain, he’s ruthless. It’s done with love, and it’s done with care.”
Decision 4: With a rapidly approaching window to shoot the show, Graham and Thorne did something risky. All they had written was Episode 1. “I didn’t want to lose that window, and I didn’t want the project to die,” said Thorne. “Let’s write episodes 2 and 3 on spec and and thankfully, it paid off for us.”
Decision 5: Amazon, the original home of the series, did not want to make the show they wanted to make. So they walked away. “We just didn’t suit what they wanted to do,” said Thorne.
Decision 6: This allowed the two creators to go to Netflix UK. Graham had starred in the Netflix political series “Bodies.” They met with Netflix in January 2024 and were shooting by the summer. “Adolescence” launched production in July 2024 with director Phil Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis, who had both shot the one-take drama “Boiling Point” with Graham. “They knew how to do it,” said Thorne. “The difference was that was a single room, and we weren’t doing single rooms. We were throwing cameras out of trucks. One of my jobs was to write the impossible and let these technically brilliant people work out ways to solve it, because it is always in the impossible that the interesting things happen.”
Decision 7: They fixed Episode 3. The first episode to be filmed was the confrontation between the 13-year-old accused murderer Jamie (Owen Cooper) and his psychologist (Erin Doherty). But Netflix had notes. “We had rehearsal week, tech week, and shoot week,” said Thorne. “Particularly Thursday of tech week, there will be a lot of people around watching the take, because that would be a dress rehearsal for where we were going to go with it. And at that point, any problems with the script would be apparent, and we’d have to get the spanners and the screwdrivers out and fix it, because there was no edit. The script wasn’t a document which then would be taken into filming, which then would be taken into the edit. The script was the story. On Episode 3, Anne Mensah, our Netflix exec, felt like we were taking way too long to get into the room. We slashed the script, and that still felt too ponderous. And so we ended up with [the psychologist] being late. And she was then traveling through the center at triple speed. It was one of those golden processes that happened so rarely, where it felt like everyone wanted to be on the same team.”
Decision 8: Netflix got behind it. The show was screened for content chief Bela Bajaria, who showed it to Co-CEO Ted Sarandos. “They were helping us position it so that it did have an international life,” said Thorne. “They were on it from the start, and they were passionate about it, and they felt like they had something that people will want to see. But that’s not to say it wasn’t a massive surprise. Because we thought we’d made a little show that might have some international interest, but we didn’t think it would do what it did, no one would ever dare. It did well in countries that I wouldn’t expect to be interested in the story of a lad from Pontefract just outside of Doncaster. We weren’t trying to tell a story that would work in America. It was about knife crime, not gun crime. It was local, but when it is specific enough it does work internationally, if given the chance. And that’s not just true of ‘Adolescence,’ that’s true of a lot of stories.”
Once the show aired to raves, Thorne started getting messages from old school friends, people who aren’t in the business. “You became aware of how many people in different countries were watching it and having that response,” said Thorne. “It is partly down to the single shot, and people were interested in the technical prowess that Matt and Phil showed in making the show, and there is an element of the fear of ‘What’s going on with my teenager behind a closed door?’ But the main reason is there was something about the performances that was special. The actors weren’t being required to do Scene 13 from Episode 2, followed by Scene 16 from Episode 3, and then Scene 20 from Episode 6, because we only have the location for the single day. They were actually telling the story of an hour. And they were telling it on their faces.”
Next up: Thorne is working on Sam Mendes’ series of films about The Beatles. That’s all he can say. He also adapted William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” directed by Mark London and filmed with 42 boys off the coast of Malaysia.
All episodes of “Adolescence” are now streaming on Netflix.
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