Possible links between utility companies and LA wildfires under investigation [Video]

LOS ANGELES — As the Los Angeles area braces for another wind system to move in this week, and emergency responders there continue to battle wildfires that erupted last week, investigations are underway to try and determine what might have caused some of the most destructive fires in California’s history.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has now taken the investigative lead in the Palisades Fire, where over 23,000 acres have now burned, and aerial imagery shows approximately 5,000 structures damaged or destroyed as of Monday.

Investigators are looking into possible causes — including arson or the potential rekindling of a fire in that same area that had been started by fireworks on New Year’s Eve, according to fire officials.

One possible theory that has neither been substantiated nor ruled out as of …