A combination of things - power lines, lightning strikes and arson. The heat wave over the past week or two plus ten odd years of drought mean that everything is tinder-dry and just waiting for a spark. Combine it with high winds and you've got a major disaster happening.
Apparently there's people going back in and relighting things after they've been put out. Words cannot describe my loathing for them.
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Date: 2009-02-09 05:36 pm (UTC)Apparently there's people going back in and relighting things after they've been put out. Words cannot describe my loathing for them.