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Closer to Skull Rock Trailhead, near the origin of the fire, a neighborhood overlooking both the wilderness and the sea is quiet, aside from the occasional trudging machinery.

"The parties have reached a settlement and the settlement requires certain conditions to be met in the near term," attorneys for the plaintiffs wrote in a court filing last week.

As recently as this spring, records show, Rinderknecht lived and was registered to vote at a Hollywood apartment building, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, near the Roosevelt Hotel.

Hurwitz’s house, which was near the trail, burned, as did his children’s school His family is temporarily relocated in Santa Monica and just started the process of rebuilding their home in Pacific Palisades.

“He is not scheduling us to be in session anytime in the near future, so me getting sworn in is completely, right now, under his purview.”