The Ramona/Cedar fire was set by a hunter. He was lighting a signal fire for his buddy cause he was lost, and it apparently got out of hand. Do to the guilt, i doubt he will last 3 months before suicide...
Most of the other fires are arson related.
As for getting our agriculture under control...not many gardeners can be hired to take care of Cleveland National Forest. Not many people can make it rain more, or have found a way to rid the forest of the beetles killing hundreds of thousand of pine trees. There just isn't much we can do to get our agriculture under control. We live in a desert and we know it. It gets hot, and dry, and summer = fires in southern california. This time too many people decided to start their own, and their were too many to deal with. Perhaps we should increase our fire department funding though.
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