my $$ is on arson/homeless campfire nonsense.
They will bury it if they see it’s a homeless person.
I think you’re right.
Homeless, probably and of course, they’ll bury it unless they can make $$$ off it. It used to be people could camp on the beaches but thinking that’s been outlawed.
We don’t know the cause, but allegedly 80mph winds and very dry conditions is often a fire that starts on power transmission lines. A branch breaks out of a tree or the top of a tree gets blown onto the power lines either severing them directly and dropping energized lines to the ground or it touches two lines at the same time igniting the branch instantly which drops to the ground.
There is really only one foolproof way to avoid this and that is to cut power service when conditions are like this in the event of a storm. People would be very unhappy about that as well, but this happens over and over in high wind events and short of cutting down every tree even close to power lines there is really no way to win for the utility company.
Horrible fire and prayers for all those impacted.