Fort McMurray fires

[Meechel17]

The charges against 19-year-old Lawson Schalm are related to numerous suspicious fires in the area [but this is interesting as some of those fires weren't nearby according to the previous posted comment] that began on April 19, including a massive one that destroyed the CN trestle bridge. [...]

I'm not saying it's true, and it read strange to me at the time. It reminded me of the 'arson' attacks by pesky teens -- in the remote highlands of Scotland -- a while back.

Interesting, considering the fact that fascination with fire is one of the main symptoms of psychopathy in young age, beside the torture of animals. If true, it can be an example of a child psychopath joining the firefighters in order to satisfy his "need".

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[herondancer]

What's really strange in the video is that things like the post boxes and green utility boxes appear unscathed. There's no peeling paint or scorch marks. How is that possible? Weird. But then I don't know much about the behaviour of large-scale fires.

The whole non-disclosure thing smells.

I noticed the same thing including the remarkable pristine condition of the street and stop signs? A large number of the poured cement driveways - of the homes that burned - lack scorch marks and heavy debris from the intense firers? It's like - the homes burned in their own foot print, so to speak. Which gives the impression, the fire followed an underground gas pipe line that connected homes on a given street or section?

Many mysteries here?

This is a really interesting idea. It would match the visual evidence. But then how to explain the swaths of houses that were untouched? It would take a map of the utilities in the area to see how gas was distributed in the city. Still, it reminds me in an analogous way of the ruts in Malta, which the Cs said were from "power lines" so to speak, being overloaded.