I remember about three years ago there was someone with a similar “heritage” arrested for arson during a massive fire in southern California. I happened to be on FR at the time and read the news, but the thread was pulled within half an hour of it being posted. No other mention of this arrest anywhere and the news disappeared as quickly has it had been posted. I found that very strange, as if there was a fear of backlash against Muslims.
I think these fires are all being started by domestic terrorists. I don’t recall EVER hearing of fire after fire like we are hearing about it these past couple of years.
Can’t speak of what’s been going on in Canada, cause I don’t have enough data, but in the US, I don’t think that’s really happening.
More people live near fire, and it gets better press coverage, and there are a lot of dead trees from bug kill, and sometimes the fires burn more because of that...but this year, the fires with the biggest news coverage was the rash of fires in northern and central California which were started by a really bad dry thunderstorm event.
There’s not been a new pattern of fire starts that show increased arson. I am beginning to think that the terrorists types that come into this country are way too much the city boys...cause they could be wreaking a lot more havoc, say, in August and late July than has been happening.
This year, the number of acres burned are two million less in the states than the 10 year average, and the number of fire starts are down, too....