National News Roundup: The Blame Game

It's choose your own simplified reason why the fires got so crazy last week, week!

It was the slow response to the danger!

It was the bueraucracy of government!

It was the crazy people living in areas that are known for having fires!

It was California's policy on fire suppression!

It was Arnold!

No it wasn't!

Yes it was.!

It was the winds!

It was the drought!

It was the weather!

It was Global Warming!

It was arson!

If you ask Google (because Google is the Oracle of our times): Poor urban and unsound rural residential planning and development arguably contribute to climate change, and to excessive burdens on our infrastructure.

And there you have it.

Arson? Are we looking at arson?

Looks like more and more news outlets are picking up on the arson investigation story. The FBI has joined the investigation which is concentrating it's efforts on pinning down any arson related information.

In Riverside County, officials said that investigators had determined that the 411-acre Rosa blaze in Temecula was intentionally set. Authorities already had said that a nearly 20,000-acre fire in Orange County was set by an arsonist.
“It’s definitely arson, and it’s been deemed a crime scene,” said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

There are also reports about the shooting death of a man in San Bernardino County. According to reports from various outlets, a man was shot to death by police after officers approached him to see if he was setting a fire.

For more information about arson investigations click here.