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Fire Is All Fire
The Cedar fire, which the San Diego government describes as quote, the largest wildland fire in California history was started when a hunter became lost and lit a small fire to signal for help. One of the other large fires called the old fire was started by an arsonist named Ricky Lee Fowler, who burned a house down after he was kicked out of it. The fire ended up killing five people and in 2013 he was found guilty of those murders and sentenced to death. So many of the other fires were smaller in nature, but they contributed to an environment where firefighting resources were spread thinMade worse by a dry season and the arrival of some bad Santa Ana winds that made fires spread much more