By Brianna Sacks, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Imogen Piper and Aaron C. Davis
Pacific Palisades, California: About 30 minutes after the Palisades fire started on Tuesday, the firefighters’ radio crackled: the flames were coming from a familiar sliver of a mountain ridge.
“The foot of the fire started real close to where the last fire was on New Year’s Eve,” said a Los Angeles County firefighter, according to a Washington Post review of archived radio transmissions.
“It looks like it’s going to make a good run,” one chimed into the dispatch.
A fire truck in the Pacific Palisades suburb of Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday.Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Washington Post’s analysis of photos, videos, satellite imagery and radio communications, as well as interviews with witnesses, offers new …