The vast majority of the time it's arson. This is like hurricane season for us...we get a few months of the year where the temperature really gets high up and the winds tend to blow pretty strong. It'd be better to call it terrorism, though
The fires are about to eat up one of the local TV station transmitters. The whole basin is just...thick with the grayish/brownish covering. The temperatures are also triple digits already so it's been pretty miserable. The interesting twist is the hurricane that's about to hammer Cabo san Lucas may provide some wet weather for us up here. I think it's el nino season again, which explains why Baja, California is about to be hit with a hurricane.