Illegal immigrants accused of starting brush fire in San Diego County near Mexican border

[alp227]

An 827-acre fire dubbed the "Cowboy Fire" in southeastern San Diego County, California, has just been contained today. The backstory is a bit bizarre, according to the LA Times:

The two suspected illegal immigrants who started the fire as a signal after becoming lost have not been located despite a search by the Border Patrol and Cal Fire. The two called an emergency number in Mexico to report their action.

BTW, in Spanish "Cowboy Fire" = "Fuego de vaquero", and in Mexico the emergency number is generally 066 (or 060 or 080 in some areas).

So: you have some people who decided to cross the border without identifying themselves to Border Patrol and then decide to start a fire to get attention - even though fire danger is high in that area of California (tomorrow's high=98 in Calexico por ejemplo). When the fire spread wildly, they apparently called for help (which they should've done instead of lighting up a fire in hot, dry desert conditions).

[madmax]

1. hmmm

The Reichstag Burns - it was the communists.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Smells on a few counts

having done this rescue shtick in that area (on the Mexican side of the border), what damn repeater did they get to pick their call to send to radio communications in Mexico?

I know something about repeaters in that area...

[Hannah Bell]

3. bullshit. there's no evidence they started the fire.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. And this thread helps the Democrats this fall...how? Divide and conquer in action.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Naw, it musta been set by Patriotik Minutmen jus' to git ridda pesky meskins.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. LOL!

[Warren Stupidity]

6. If we had a rational program that normalized immigration we

would not have this sort of idiocy going on. In this brave new neo-liberal world capital is free to cross borders with impunity while labor is corralled within obsolete national borders. Globalization for the plutocracy, extreme nationalism for everyone else.