After a fire.....

Suggested scenario is that sufficient current was flowing to melt the insulation off the 12 ga feed wire to the relay.
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And this cable or bundle must have a wire that also had higher current flowing through it than it could handle.
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That bundle probably has the alternator output wire in it.