Scary. I wonder if we have some firebugs on the loose.
"Scary. I wonder if we have some firebugs on the loose."
This is serious, and it calls to mind something happened when I was in high school in Ponca City in 1961. Though from Phoenix, I moved there when my dad was transferred. That year, some of us were running around at night and turned a corner at high speed. There was a guy striking old fashioned kitchen matches and throwing them into a dry field of wheat.
He took off like a shot. Fortunately, the field did not catch fire. (We went back to make sure of that.)
For several months, there were several unexplained fires including a downtown variety store and a major drug store.
You have raised a good question.
Actually, this is the time of year that farmers burn the prairie... happens every year. My husband was out doing it yesterday here in Eastern Kansas but no wind and slightly damp ground and about twenty people kept it under control.