Despite eyewitness and camera evidence of suspected arson in the Greater Los Angeles fires, authorities have yet to rule it as the cause of the blaze.
In one instance, a concerned resident showed firefighters video proof of arsonists setting fire to the city.
The citizen approached a senior fireman with the shocking footage on Tuesday, as the firefighter and his crew engaged the original Palisades blaze early on, an anonymous fire official told the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
“We had a resident come to us and said he got a video of two men dumping gas and lighting it off,” the Los Angeles Fire Department official told the Mail.
“By then we were too busy,” the firefighter added. “We told him to take the video to the police.”
The current whereabouts of the footage, however, are unclear.
While the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department responded to the Mail’s requests for comment, they did not answer questions regarding reports about arson specifically, according to the outlet.
Meanwhile, the L.A. Police Department told the Mail they “have not received any reports of arson.”
In a separate incident involving the Kenneth fire, which broke out on Thursday, police arrested a suspected arsonist after locals