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Old 05-09-2016, 11:04 AM   #1283
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother View Post
Has anyone seen stories on how this fire started?
A Uof A professor who is supposedly an expert said that it was almost certainly manmade (as someone else said, no lightning in the area when the fire started).

They said that about 50% of forest fires/wild fires are manmade and about 47% are caused from lightning. They didn't say what the other 3% is, but I am guessing natural from compost.

I just hope it wasn't arson.
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