Man started California wildfire by pushing burning car into gully, prosecutor says
...a statement that the man, Ronnie Dean Stout II, was jailed without bond on a Butte County judge's warrant after he was identified as the person seen pushing a flaming car into a gully on..., which exploded overnight from about 1,400 acres (567 hectares) on Wednesday near Chico, California, to about 125,000 acres on Thursday afternoon in northern California about 80 miles (130 km) north of the state capital Sacramento.
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