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“Surveillance footage shows a suspect collecting rubbish from a public trash can, also collecting wood for kindling and placing it near the base of a power pole,” said Scott, describing the Oct.

In California, overgrown vegetation that turned to kindling amid record-breaking heat fueled the Park fire after it sparked in July.

No one questions the need to remove such fast-growing invasives as black mustard, which becomes kindling for wildfires once it dries out in the summer.

Every year, they brought in hundreds of goats to clear brush, which can be like kindling for any fire, throughout the community.

These conditions cause plants to die and become kindling for wildfires.