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We Now Know How Several of the California Wildfires Started

 

On Thursday, news broke that three brush fires in the San Diego, California area started in homeless encampments. 
The San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) confirmed this news to NBC 7 on Thursday.

ThefiresinquestionweretheFriarsFireinMissionValley,theCenterFireinRanchoBernardoandtheGilmanFireinLaJolla(viaNBCSanDiego): OnJan.21,abrushfireonahillsideacrossfromFashionValleyMallinMissionValleythreatenedstructuresandpromptedevacuationorders. […] OnJan.22,firefightersrespondedtoabrushfireonamountainsideinRanchoBernardothatthreatenedhomesandinjuredoneperson,accordingtotheSanDiegoFire-RescueDepartment. […] By11a.m.,thefirehadgrownto7acreswithnocontainment,butfirecrewsappearedtohaveanupperhandontheblaze,andsomeresourceswerebeingdispersed.By1p.m.,containmentwasat50%.Allevacuationordersandwarningswereliftedalittlemorethantwohourslater,SanDiegopolicesaid. […] OnJan.23,abrushfirewasburningclosetohomesandquicklypromptedevacuationsinLaJolla. […] Beforethemorethan175respondingfirefightersgotahol