Layman here, but is this event a sort of unintentional arson?
A sailor who knows so little about location that he overlooks there are government staff and facilities on the island, and so little sea experience that he lands ashore sans vessel with no means of communication on his person?
I have a strong opinion (meaningless in the big picture) that there should be consequences for his actions.
The legal definition of arson: Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire…
I think they would have to prove Malice. The guy that lit the Cedar Fire, for the same “reason” got six months work furlough, community service and paid $9000
But the feds and Cal Fire like to seek restitution.
ALERTCalifornia - Santa Ynez Peak West 1 Bumping this camera up again because it looks like fire activity has increased. Due to a firing op or otherwise, I do not know.
Satellite imagery also shows an increase in smoke in the last few frames: COD: Satellite and Radar
The winds look pretty squirrely on the satellite.
See on AFF that Scooper-262 is now working this incident
The fire was possibly started by the burning vessel, not the flares.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYh5lMrmq5j/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I’d imagine the flight pattern would be similar to the “kiddie” rollercoaster at the county fair. An oval with a little elevation and a dip.
That’s a lot of circling done in 3 hours.
Looks pretty tied in on yesterday’s mapping. There were some slops in their firing the day before, but that area is black on today’s ops map.
@pyrogeography Any word if fire got into the Torrey Pines? I’m curious if they watched your YouTube video and let it burn thru there.
It burned through them.
I can’t stand the news using the word ‘destroyed’ when it comes to fire in California chaparral landscapes. What is this, 1950? It looks like this article was created by AI, trained on a shitload of poorly-written news articles written by people who didn’t take a minute to learn anything about the topic they were writing about. GIGO.
Ca wildfire bot is used by the BEES and other 'news papers" united robots and McClatchy and it is pretty terrible.
