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Saturday, August 31, 2013

MASSIVE YOSEMITE FIRE MAY HAVE BEEN IGNITED BY MARIJUANA GROWERS

UPDATE September 5, 2013

Hunter's campfire sparked Yosemite blaze - not marijuana growers.



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The massive forest fire that has scorched 333 square miles in and around Yosemite National Park may have been sparked by illegal marijuana growers, according to one fire official in Tuolumne County. 
 
The San Jose Mercury News reports that Todd McNeal, chief of the Twain Harte Fire Department, told a community meeting that it was "highly suspect that there might have been some sort of illicit grove, a marijuana-grow-type thing."
 
McNeal, who has 23 years of experience with Forest Service, the National Park Service and other agencies, said at the Aug. 23 meeting that investigators know the fire is human caused since there was no lightening in the area.

Read more - http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/31/progress-made-against-yosemite-wildfire-but-smoke-spreads/

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