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A Cal Fire firefighter was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of starting five separate wildfires in the state within the last six weeks. The fire apparatus engineer, Robert Hernandez, 38, was ...
A California firefighter has been arrested and accused of setting five blazes in the state's wine country, even as his fellow firefighters battle flames that have consumed almost a million acres ...
A Cal Fire firefighting engineer accused of sparking at least five fires in Northern California forest lands was arrested Friday by investigators. Stunned Cal Fire officials announced the arrest ...
John Leonard Orr is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter. He set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year spree, killing four people in South Pasadena in 1984.
Firefighter arson is a persistent phenomenon involving a very small minority of firefighters who are also active arsonists. [1] Fire-fighting organizations are aware of this problem. Some of the offenders seem to be motivated by boredom, or by the prospect of receiving attention for responding to the fires they have set.
[18] [16] In May 2024, a firefighter and a CONAF employee were arrested on suspicion of starting the fires in Valparaiso Region. [23] The government of Mexico sent a team of 30 firefighters from the National Forestry Commission and 127 Army and Air Force personnel, [24] together with 26 tons of food supplies. [25]
HEALDSBURG, Calif. - A Cal Fire firefighter was arrested Friday for allegedly igniting five fires in the North Bay in recent weeks when he was off duty. At 8 a.m. Friday, Cal Fire law enforcement ...
A 2016 report from the National Volunteer Fire Council estimates that more than 100 firefighters in the U.S, are arrested on arson charges each year. Wildfires have burned nearly 1m acres in ...