An arrest has been made in connection with the Palisades Fire, which caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year, sources close to the investigation confirmed to ABC News.

Federal officials arrested a man they said started a small blaze in January that later rekindled and grew into the fire that devastated Pacific Palisades.

A mix of rage, closure and questions was evident in the Palisades on Wednesday, after the arrest of a suspect on suspicion of starting a blaze that prosecutors say led to the Palisades fire.

A new finding that the Palisades fire was a restart of an arson blaze on Jan. 1 that firefighters believed they put out has heightened concerns from some residents about the Los Angeles Fire Department’s performance.

Authorities allege Jonathan Rinderknecht, who previously lived in the Pacific Palisades, was working as an Uber driver in the area on New Year’s Eve and picked up at least two rides that night before starting a fire that would become known as the Lachman Fire, according to the criminal complaint filed in California.

A 29 year-old man has been arrested and charged with starting the blaze that became the Palisades fire, which killed 12 and destroyed more than 6,800 structures in Los Angeles in January.

The Lachman fire in the Palisades ignited days before the Palisades fire. Even then, it prompted suspicion that it led to the catastrophic Palisades fire.

South Carolina authorities downplay arson concern in fire at Judge Diane Goodstein's mansion that injured her husband, Arnold Goodstein, and two others.

The challenges that firefighters faced during the Palisades fire included an ineffective process for recalling firefighters who were off-duty and fire chiefs with little to no experience handling a major incident.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A brush fire broke out Tuesday in a remote area of De Luz, authorities said. The blaze, dubbed the “Sandia Fire,” occurred around 3:19 p.m. in the vicinity of the 40000 block of Sandia Creek Drive, according to Cal Fire San Diego.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is facing a federal charge of destruction of property by means of fire, according to Bill Essayli, the acting US attorney for Southern California. Autho