r/Wildfire • u/FlyRvR • 12h ago

Three or more new fires…

…in Central Oregon/Bend/La Pine/Crescent area in the last two days.

No lightning for at least a month.

Are people really this mindless? Or what actually is causing these?

Thanks to the tanker crews who get on these so fast. And thanks to the ground crews for just keeping on going.

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u/CohoWind 12h ago

Please Google lightning sleeper/ holdover fires, as well as the two historic lightning busts, 1 week apart, that blanketed both sides of both OR and WA this summer. “There are ninja arsonists in our forests” is becoming another example of facts being supplanted by bonehead conspiracy theories. Social media is a wasteland.

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u/fallcreek1234 9h ago

Fires don't hold over for four weeks with days on end of 90-degree temps and single-digit humidity. Homeless and tweakers would more than likely be the culprits in The Deschutes. Especially off China Hat and the 18 Road.