Posted on 09/03/2009 6:45:14 PM PDT by NoobRep
LOS ANGELES, Sept 3 (Reuters) - A huge wildfire burning in the mountains above Los Angeles, the largest ever in the county, was started by arson and will be investigated as a homicide, authorities said on Thursday.
The arson declaration was made after investigators found evidence of arson at the point of origin for the so-called Station Fire, which has blackened an area the size of Chicago, started.
"Arson investigators from the U.S. Forest Service (and other agencies) ... have concluded that the Station Fire was the result of an arson," Forest Service Commander Rita Wears told reporters at a press conference.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide bureau has initiated a homicide investigation due to the death of two firefighters, Wears said.
Containment of the so-called Station Fire increased to 38 percent, up from 28 percent a day earlier, according to fire commander Mike Dietrich, who said his force of more than 4,700 firefighters was making "great progress."
But the amount of scorched landscape grew slightly, also, to nearly 145,000 acres (59,000 hectares) -- or about 226 square miles (585 sq km).
The blaze, roaring out of control since Aug. 26 in the rugged San Gabriel Mountains overlooking the Los Angeles basin, had prompted authorities to order the evacuation of some 6,300 homes at the height of the fire threat.
As of Wednesday night, the all-clear had been given for the last of those foothill residents to return home.
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I wonder if that liberal goon professor from Texas Tech that was on Fox last night claiming these wildfires are caused by global warming, will show her sorry assface in public again.
She'll probably claim it was started by George Bush and Dick Cheney.
“She’ll probably claim it was started by George Bush and Dick Cheney”
...and funded by Halliburton.
I guess this wasn’t the same blaze that was started by careless campers at a clandestine marijuana grow site.
One of the Sanchez(D-CA) hookers said the same thing.
illegal alien. Maybe even a muzzie one.
This cost Calif a fortune when it can’t afford a single more penny on top of its current budget problems.
Islamo terrorists, eco-terrorists, or just some crazy firebug?
Throughout the first couple of days, they kept seeing these groups of employees of the local pot growers emerging from the forest. It’ll be interesting if the suspect turns out to be one of them.
That was the “La Brea” east of Santa Maria fire. This is the really big “Station” fire in the mtns on the edge of the LA Basin.
Maybe I’m too pessimistic, but I don’t know how on earth they would ever begin to find out who did it.
>> I don’t know how on earth they would ever begin to find out who did it.
You’d be amazed! Frankly, I can’t believe the towelheadistas haven’t thought of doing this. Maybe they have ...
Eco terror kept the government from clearing the land and an earth first fire bug - my guess no proof - is the cause of it. Remember all the hate crime stories in Calif. colleges ended up being false. Some EarthFirst creep starts a fire to clear out the homes and return the land to Mother Nature.
The 12 monkeys did it.
That would be my first guess also.
Several freepers claim they are the fault of enviro-forestry policies. I’m sure they’ll all jump up and apologize too.
A muz got pinched near my place in Calabasas last year trying to start one.
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