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The Old Fire was a large complex wildfire that started on October 25, 2003 (the original Old Fire began on October 25), near Old Waterman Canyon Road and California State Route 18 in the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County, Southern California, United States. The Old Fire caused at least $1.2 billion in damages. [2] [3]
The 2003 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that burned throughout the state of California during the year 2003. In total, 9,116 fires [ 4 ] burned 1,020,460 acres (4,129.7 km 2 ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In October, a major wildfire outbreak in Southern California burned more than 750,000 acres, destroyed thousands of homes, and killed two ...
On lands under CAL FIRE's jurisdictional protection (i.e. not federal or local responsibility areas), the majority of wildfire ignitions since 1980 have been caused by humans. The four most common ignition sources for wildfires on CAL FIRE-protected lands are, in order: equipment use, powerlines, arson, and lightning. [10]
The blaze has grown to more than 350,000 acres, or 546 square miles, according to Cal Fire, making it the seventh-largest wildfire in recorded state history. Containment for the fire, which is now ...
The Park Fire devastating Butte County became California’s largest wildfire in recorded history caused solely by arson, state officials said, after police arrested 42-year-old Ronnie Stout on ...
Old Fire: California: 993 homes destroyed, 6 deaths. Simultaneous with the Cedar fire. 2003: 273,246 acres (110,579 ha) Cedar Fire: California: Third largest recorded fire in modern California history; burned 2,232 homes and killed 15 in San Diego County. 2004: 1,305,592 acres (528,354 ha) Taylor Complex Fire: Alaska
In San Bernardino, 50 miles (80 km) east of Los Angeles, Justin Wayne Halstenberg, a 34-year-old delivery driver, was charged with arson and great bodily injury on Thursday for allegedly starting ...
At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in California, surpassing the 38,664-acre (15,647 ha) Lake Fire in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. [27] During the fire's first 12 hours, it grew at a rate of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) per hour. [4]