Crews gain little ground against Shasta County's Bully Fire
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
(07-13) 19:35 PDT SHASTA COUNTY -- Firefighters were making little headway against a 3,700-acre blaze Sunday in rural Shasta County that investigators believe was sparked by the exhaust from a truck driven by a man delivering supplies to an illegal marijuana growing site.
The wildfire, called the Bully Fire after nearby Old Bully Choop Road, had destroyed six structures and was just 10 percent contained by late afternoon, said Dennis Mathisen, spokesman for the California Department of Fire and Forestry Protection. The blaze ignited around 3:30 p.m. Friday.
"It's just a very unforgiving land. We are close to 1,100 firefighters on the fire right now, and we're fighting it both from the ground and in the air," Mathisen said from near the fire front. "And it's hot - it's very, very hot."
Temperatures in Redding on Sunday exceeded 100 degrees.
Cal Fire law enforcement officials on Saturday arrested the driver of the rented truck, Freddie Alexander Smoke III, 37, of Sacramento. The coincidentally named Smoke is accused of recklessly causing a fire and cultivating unauthorized marijuana, both felonies, according to a Cal Fire press release.
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Freddie Smoke caused a wildfire? Really?
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