[Looking for Diogenes]

Another version is being widely reported: that the cause of the Cedar Fire in SD Co. was a signal flare launched by the lost hunter.

It is not obvious that a signal flare will come down to earth burning. And they sell them in catalogs and stores, so it is possible a hunter might carry one.

[I'll be your Huckleberry]

The biggest, at 100,000 acres, started Saturday near the mountain town of Julian when a lost hunter set off a signal fire, authorities said. The hunter was detained and may face charges.