Originally posted by Barg
All it takes is one spark, Sally. We've had fires here 10/20 times larger in Oz from an untended camp fire and the spark from an angle grinder. That aside, not that I subscribe to conspiracy theories, but if it got to the stage where I thought people or government agencies were committing arson on political grounds I'd have to think about moving to a safer, less politically warped country.
Agreed - as you say, it just takes one spark. Some people just don't get it, as their whole worldview is shaped around an evil globalist conspiracy shaping every single human or natural event everywhere on the planet. Which is textbook psychosis or, in lay terms, barking mad.
We know too well in Australia that the California fires could have been started by a bbq, angle grinder, electrical short, arson, industrial accident, burnoff or any of a number of different things. When the catastrophic conditions are there, the odds are that a catastrophic fire will occur.
To even think that it is a CIA plot or an attempt to politically embarrass Trump requires a unique kind of unhinged logic.
