From wasp nest to California's biggest fire
by Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times
Jun 08, 2019
4 minutes
All he wanted to do was plug up a wasp nest because he's allergic and worried about being stung.
It was a hot day. The rancher in the Northern California hamlet of Porter Valley walked into a bed of waist-high cured grassland, driving a stake into the ground. That created a spark that grew into the largest wildfire in state history.
The blaze grew larger by the second, and the man's attempts to smother it with dirt were futile. Authorities this week released their findings on the cause of the Ranch fire, the largest of the two blazes
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