To the Vanguard News Home page 9-3-09 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the gigantic blaze - which has killed two firefighters, scorched 226 square miles and destroyed dozens of homes - was set intentionally.
"We believe that this was caused by someone intending to set a fire," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said at an afternoon briefing.
Officials said forensic evidence at the fire's point of origin revealed that the wildfire - among the largest in Southern California's history - was an act of arson. Whitmore declined to elaborate on the evidence due to the ongoing investigation.
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8-30-09 The jerks that run the Acton-Agua Dulce School District have failed to allow our schools to be opened as shelters and our residents have to go to Highland High in Palmdale. What a bunch of low life jerks and they wonder why most of the community hates the school and its management.