August 12, 2018 (San Diego's East County) - Fire investigators recently announced that the cause of the deadly Carr fire in Redding was a flat tire on a trailer. When the rim scraped the concrete roadway, it sparked a fire.
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September 3, 2016 (San Diego's East County) - In San Diego County, wildfires are our biggest disaster risk, and nearly all of them are human-caused.
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