Florida Man Arrested For Setting Pacific Palisades Fire That Destroyed 7,000 Buildings And Killed 12 People

Posted October 8, 2025 by with 2 comments

That’s the mass murderer and arsonist above, Jonathan Rinderknecht, a Florida man who was working in California as an Uber driver when he set the fire that obliterated an entire city back in January. Despite killing a dozen people and destroying nearly 7,000 homes, he’s only being charged with destruction of property, and could serve as little as five years in prison. They arrested him this week, and here’s some of the press conference via ABC:

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