In 1978, an arsonist lit a cigarette, stuffed into a book of matches, crammde both into a Dixie Cup, and placed the cup in some dry bushes behind the Whizzin’s shopping mall in Agoura, Calif. After the arsonist was long gone, the cigarette burned down to the matches and ignited them, which, in turn, ignited the cup, which ignited the bushes.
The resulting brush fire, fed by Santa Ana winds, burned all the way to the ocean more than ten miles away, consuming dozens, if not hundreds, of homes.
Frightening.