(FOX40.COM) — CAL FIRE officials introduced on Thursday that a man was arrested shortly after the Thompson Fire started burning after allegedly beginning a second blaze to try to comprise the primary one.
The 61-year-old man, a resident of Oroville, was detained on the afternoon of July 2 a number of hours after the Thompson Fire started round 11 a.m. that very same day.
CAL FIRE officials stated the man was arrested after admitting he had set a backfire with a propane torch.
A backfire is a fireplace set on function that may be extra simply managed and serves as a approach to burn vegetation in order that a bigger fireplace can’t advance any farther.
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However, CAL FIRE officials stated that the fireplace the man created posed a threat to the public and personnel working to comprise the Thompson Fire.
The man was charged with unlawfully inflicting a fireplace to wildland.
As of Thursday night, the Thompson Fire was practically 4,000 acres in measurement, about the measurement of a college campus, and was 29% contained.
More than 20,000 folks remained displaced due to evacuation orders.
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