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This type of thing makes me glad I no longer live in the foothills-yes, Bakersfield does have foothills. I used to pull fire watch from my bedroom windows. Every 2 years we had an arsonist running around in our area. In '86 it was real bad. My sister was on her way home and spotted it in the large field in front of our houses. It had just started. Small fires set every 10-20 feet. By the time I called the FD the flames were running towards the houses in front of us. A bunch of my friends came out to help. I had to break in to a neighbors house to get their windows closed because the ash was so bad. After a fire fighter was killed they finally caught the guy responsible. It was a Basque sheep herder. He set the fires every 2 years so his roaming flocks would have better grass to eat.
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