Lightning starts most fires, it’s natural and random. Criminals start fewer but more dangerous fires because they start them near cities and towns. They don’t go deep into the wilds to start them.
This sort of thing actually happens. I was burning a pile of pallets one day. I decided to put it out and approached the fire with a fire extinguisher. The pallets saw me coming and exploded like there was an IED under them. Parts of pallets flew in all directions carrying fire with them into the woods hundreds of yards. I was lucky to escape with my life. /s/
Why is it many stories by journalists are so poorly written these days? Or did some Affirmative Action DA with the country write this?
What I see as possible is the kid had a fire and never properly extinguished it. Maybe it was not properly contained in a fire ring of rocks. Maybe the wind picked up and things got out of control. For sure the pallets never exploded after he tried to put out the fire.
I see the kid is a white boy. If he were an illegal of color he never would have been charged with anything.
I thought his name was Clinmate Change?
Yet homeless in California who set fires...
“Up in flames: Rising number of homeless fires threatens LA neighborhoods”
“There were 13,909 homeless fires in Los Angeles in 2023, almost double the number of such fires in 2020, according to LAFD data.
Some of these fires are apparently caused by homeless people tapping into city electrical wires under the sidewalk, the I-Team found.
The firemen also said fires are being started from openly cooking meth.”
The pols blame it all on Climate change, of course - as the homeless population continues to grow and spread.
There are thousands of acres in the Pine Barrens where groups or inidividuals can “party” without anyone knowing they are there. The area is in a state of forced abandonment by state regulations that bar any development of any kind in large tracts of the area, on the theory they are “saving” a vast water supply with the huge qcquifer that lies beneath the area.
Thanks to this upstanding citizen I was under mandatory evacuation . I live in Ocean County. Fire is still burning. Tuesday was a sh** show here. If any of you are on Facebook. We have a local pages. One is exit 74 scanner news. For those out of area, you can see lots of video and pictures.
The article should read: “ New Jersey receives much needed facelift as a result of forest fire.”
Now, a second person (age 17) has been charged, too:
https://www.fox29.com/news/second-teen-charged-new-jersey-wildfire-burned-over-15000-acres