Jonathan Rinderknecht's attorney countered that a hilltop blaze was triggered by fireworks, not his client, and that the massive Palisades inferno that killed 12 people was a separate fire set by others.

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Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of starting a fire that eventually became the deadly blaze that devastated the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles last year.