Federal Agency Probes Arson Incidents
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Bureau of Indian Affairs arson investigators are in this Humboldt County town in response to a string of 50 fires that have plagued the Hoopa Valley for two weeks.
“We have a terrible arson problem,” said Hoopa Fire Department Management Officer Gary Risling.
Since June 25, fires have left blackened spots along California 96.
About 400 firefighters from the state Department of Forestry, the U.S. Forest Service and other reservation fire departments have been battling the blazes.
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