Cal Fire says it does not have enough evidence to determine cause of Glass fire
Cal Fire said Friday that a 10-month investigation into the origin of last year’s Glass fire ultimately proved inconclusive, meaning hundreds of Sonoma and Napa County residents who lost homes and other property to the 23-day blaze likely will never know what caused it.
The 38-page report from Cal Fire’s chief investigator indicated he was unable to rule out the possibility the Sept. 27 wildfire started in a bank of electrical panels associated with large water tanks and solar panels on a residential property in Napa County’s Deer Park area.
Cal Fire Capt. Gary Uboldi wrote that post-fire work around the equipment in the weeks between the wildfire’s start and his mid-November examination of the area had “disturbed the scene substantially, along with wet weather conditions which effectively destroyed any remaining items of evidentiary value.”
Officially the cause of the fire remains “undetermined.”
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