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California Fire Battalion Chief - Whoever Did This Knew What They Were Doing
Homeland Security National Terror Alert Responce Center ^ | October 22, 2007 | News Admin - Unattributed

Posted on 10/23/2007 2:44:10 PM PDT by NorthernRight

Edited on 10/23/2007 5:40:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

California Fire Battalion Chief - Whoever Did This Knew What They Were Doing

October 22, 2007

Fire officials are now stating that the Orange County Santiago fire was purposely set and there is speculation that other fires may have also been deliberate. See Interactive Map

Fire officials found three separate “points of origin,” all near the intersection of Silverado Canyon Road and Santiago Canyon Road. Two were on one side of the road, and the third was on the other. “Whoever did this knew what they were doing,” said Kris Concepcion, a fire authority battalion chief. Also, the fire traveled 3 miles in its first 20 minutes when it was ignited about 6 p.m. Sunday, he said.

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We are NOT implying that the California fires are an act of terrorism however; the threat of pyro-terrorist attacks pose a significant risk to the U.S. and the fires in California and in Greece earlier this year should be a wake-up call.

In 2003 an FBI memo alerted law enforcement agencies that an al-Qaeda terrorist being held in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.

It was reported that the detainee, who was not identified, said the plan involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed devices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in forests and grasslands after the operatives had left the country.

“The detainee believed that significant damage to the U.S. economy would result and once it was realized that the fires were terrorist acts, U.S. citizens would put pressure on the U.S. government to change its policies,” the memo said.

How Can So Many Fires Be By Natural Causes ?

A Local News Radio talk show host in San Diego asked, “how can so many fires, in so many places, in such a short period of time, all be caused by natural causes”.

From USA Today in July of 2003

USA Today/Gannett publication article removed.

al-Qaeda Detainee Spoke of Fire Plot

As we have stated before. If you see anything suspicious, report it to law enforcement immediately.

UPDATE: Video - Officials say arson now suspected in Orange County Fire

UPDATE: From Los Angeles Fox News

“I’m sad to report this is an arson fire,” OCFA Chief Chip Prather announced at an early morning briefing. “There were three separate starts: two on one side of the road and one on the other, and obviously we are actively investigating that.”

Links - A number of blogs and websites have sprung up to report on the fires. We will provide links to a couple we’ve found.

National Interagency Fire Center

Live Local News Coverage Channel 10 San Diego

Orange County Register

And Still I Persist

Sign On San Diego Fire Blog

 

Written by News Admin · Filed Under Incident Reports 


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arson; dajjal; dhimmi; dhimmitude; dhimmiwatch; earthfirst; ecoterrorism; evil; fatnotlazy; firechief; greenpeace; ididit; illegals; islamicjihad; islamofascism; jihad; jihadis; pissedoffillegals; sandiego; santiagocanyon; satan; savetheearth; sierraclub; terrorism; veryevil; wildfire; wildfires; wot
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To: yield 2 the right

Honestly, I think the most likely culprits could be people who are in financial trouble due to the real estate and mortgage markets. Getting insurance for a totally destroyed house would solve a lot of people’s problems right now (from individual homeowners to real estate developers), and having their loss be part of a large scale fire like this minimizes the chance that the circumstances of their particular home loss will be closely scrutinized by an insurer looking for evidence of arson. It appears that much of this fire originated from accidental causes, but the beginning of a big fire in their area could well have started a few people down the road of thinking “Actually it wouldn’t be so bad if my house (that I’m about to lose anyway) burned down” and then on to “I could make sure that happens”.


21 posted on 10/23/2007 2:59:54 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: NorthernRight

Are these terrorists?

At a billion dollars, this is the same cost as the WTC.

Its been 8 years and something needs to be done. We can’t be worrying about people with matches.


22 posted on 10/23/2007 3:00:12 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: pennboricua
Wasn’t that the case in Greece a few months back?

That's what I was wondering. Never heard much follow up on that from the main stream media. (Or here on Free Republic for that matter.)

23 posted on 10/23/2007 3:00:18 PM PDT by scan59 (Let consumers dictate market policies. Government just gets in the way.)
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To: BenLurkin

People desperately wanted to pin the last set of bad Southern California fires a couple of years ago on Muslim terrorists.

Turned out to be a random assortment of accidents, idiots, and assorted arsonists, as it usually is.

They did arrest one guy with a weird-sounding Armenian name for a wildfire arson and the more clueless on FR briefly got excited thinking he might be a Muslim or Arab.


24 posted on 10/23/2007 3:00:49 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: NorthernRight

Thought about it earlier with the release of the recent UBL tape.


25 posted on 10/23/2007 3:00:52 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (No One Gets To Their Heaven Without A Fight)
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To: NorthernRight

Similar fires in the Florida Evergades were found to be started by Broward County firefighters—for overtime pay.


26 posted on 10/23/2007 3:01:17 PM PDT by Does so
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To: NorthernRight

hanging , from a burned tree, should be the penalty for such arson


27 posted on 10/23/2007 3:02:03 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Wallace T.

The Japanese Fu-Go balloons did kill a minister and some if not all of his family. Since they were kept a secret to avoid giving away where they landed and how ineffective they were, the family had no idea what they were dealing with.


28 posted on 10/23/2007 3:02:08 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
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To: pennboricua
Wasn’t that the case in Greece a few months back?

Yes and it was reported as terrorism and then it was quickly hushed up and nothing more. I know they made approximately 30 arrests.

29 posted on 10/23/2007 3:03:04 PM PDT by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents, dead people, dogs, felons)
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To: NorthernRight

Could it be terrorist......hmm. most likely tis,so what we gonna do about it..nothing.


30 posted on 10/23/2007 3:03:15 PM PDT by JamesA
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To: NorthernRight

There were five starts on the Buckweed Incident


31 posted on 10/23/2007 3:04:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: GovernmentShrinker

One dirty little secret is a surprisingly large number of wildfire arsons are set by firefighters.


32 posted on 10/23/2007 3:04:34 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: TomGuy

that isnt exactly correct...the santiago cyn fire is just now starting to take homes.....san diego has lost 1750 or so....


33 posted on 10/23/2007 3:05:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Strategerist
Understood.

Some of the current fires are known to not be arson related.

As for those which are, a lot of the arsonists are caught and prosecuted.

Here’s hoping they catch and prosecute whoever did this whatever their motive.

34 posted on 10/23/2007 3:05:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Strategerist

I don’t know why but I suspect disgruntled “undocumented workers” since these fires are so close to the border with our neighbor to the south.

Seems to me the illegals would love to put a finger in the eye of rich white Californians.


35 posted on 10/23/2007 3:05:40 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
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To: NorthernRight

Greece was on fire seems like just a month ago. This is suspicious, although the fire chief interviewed on Coast last night said they weren’t even thinking about causes just then because they were too busy.


36 posted on 10/23/2007 3:06:17 PM PDT by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: Strategerist

Source, please?


37 posted on 10/23/2007 3:09:46 PM PDT by RoseyT
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To: Wallace T.
The stories of both the Japanes high altitude balloon attempts and their large, aircraft-carrying submarines that made some inconsequential attacks, both make very interesting reading.

I believe that there is a strong possiblility that the fires we are seeing in Southern California...with so many of them cropping up all at once, despite the Sanata Annas and heat wave (which I have personally experienced down there) are very suspicious.

I would not put it past the enemies of this nation to have been the cause...and I am speaking of both the domestic, hard left, useful idiot enemies, as well as the Islamic terrorist enemies. In my mind, during this time of war, they are very much one and the same. They spout the same reason and purpose behind their action and in their public pronouncements support one another.

38 posted on 10/23/2007 3:10:35 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Vicki
Yes and it was reported as terrorism and then it was quickly hushed up and nothing more. I know they made approximately 30 arrests.

It wasn't hushed up, it just stopped being discussed on FR because it wasn't the "terrorism" that people wanted to hear about.

Most of the arsons were apparently organized crime types paying to have land cleared for development.

39 posted on 10/23/2007 3:10:50 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: NorthernRight

Maybe it’s illegals, terrorists or pyro’s, but my guess is that there were a couple of “investors” who were way, way underwater on their seven-figure mortgages.


40 posted on 10/23/2007 3:11:53 PM PDT by Notary Sojac ("If it ain't broken, fix it 'till it is" - Congress)
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