{"id":38544,"date":"2023-09-04T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38544"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T21:41:09","slug":"officials-admit-louisianas-largest-ever-wildfire-was-caused-by-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/officials-admit-louisianas-largest-ever-wildfire-was-caused-by-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Admit Louisiana\u2019s Largest-Ever Wildfire Was Caused by Arson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Louisiana suffered a record-breaking number of 441 fires between August 1 to August 24, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/24\/us\/louisiana-wildfires-merryville-evacuation\/index.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tiger Island Fire in Louisiana&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/louisiana-tiger-island-fire-largest-wildfire-states-history-doubles-in-size\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was the largest<\/a>&nbsp;in the state\u2019s history, burning over 33,000 acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is unprecedented. We\u2019ve never had to fight this many fires simultaneously and at this duration. We\u2019re fighting between 25 and 30 [wildfires] today,\u201d said Mike Strain, the commissioner for Louisiana\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Forestry. \u201cIt\u2019s burning very intensely. It\u2019s moving pretty fast, and you can feel the air picking up. That\u2019s from the heat of the fire sucking air into the fire,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damn, Louisiana on fire \ud83d\udd25 too \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZE5tHFKvDk\">pic.twitter.com\/ZE5tHFKvDk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MrDaddy (@therealmrdaddy1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealmrdaddy1\/status\/1695482172264566935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the LDAF\u2019s Enforcement Division, State Fire Marshal deputies, and the Beauregard Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office detectives, the Tiger Island Fire, Louisiana\u2019s largest-ever wildfire, was caused by arson, not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/biden-were-gonna-need-a-whole-hell-of-a-lot-more-money-to-fight-climate-change\/\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana suffered a record-breaking number of 441 fires between August 1 to August 24, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF)&nbsp;reported. The Tiger Island Fire in Louisiana&nbsp;was the largest&nbsp;in the state\u2019s history, burning over 33,000 acres. \u201cThis is unprecedented. We\u2019ve never had to fight this many fires simultaneously and at this duration. We\u2019re fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":38545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FIRE.jpg?fit=773%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38546,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions\/38546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}