I wish news articles would link directly to charging documents when they’re public.

Here it is (PDF): https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26183108/usa-v-rinder...

This is much more detailed and worth reading. I didn't realize the specific location of the origin of the fire was known.

The origin fire was extinguished seven days previously but allegedly continued underground. Their assessment that there was one fire that resurged vs two separate fires reads circumstantial rather than proven.

Running with the official explanation, can dormant fires like this be detected via underground temperature anomalies? If high winds are expected, the fire department could then be preemptively assigned to known risk locations.

The broader picture here does look very incriminating (via law enforcement sharing from telcos, Google, OpenAI, and Meta) towards the individual. But it also demonstrates that there was a weeklong opportunity for preventing it from becoming the disaster that it did.