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6 small fires set by an arsonist today in the Twin Peaks area near Lake Arrowhead Rt 189. All were put out but that is a lot of set fires in one area. The AP article says it a little different.

Lake Arrowhead-AP) -- Six small forest fires near Lake Arrowhead were quickly doused today. Authorities are looking for an arsonist who may have set at least one of the blazes.

Arson also was blamed for October's weeklong Old Fire that killed four people, burned more than 91-thousand acres and destroyed nearly one-thousand homes.

This morning, some 120 firefighters responded to alarms near State Highway 189 west of Lake Arrowhead near the small town of Twin Peaks. The series of fires were each between a quarter to a half-acre in size.

At least one of the fires is deemed suspicious. Investigators say another may be have been caused by a faulty power line.

Last month, a controlled burn turned into a 350-acre forest fire in the San Bernardino Mountains and forced the evacuation of the Bear Mountain and Snow Summit ski resorts.

Old Explosives Found, L.A. University Evacuated

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police evacuated a Los Angeles university and shut down a major roadway on Monday after construction workers stumbled across two explosive devices that appeared to be of World War II vintage, authorities said.

"During an excavation some explosive devices were uncovered," Los Angeles police spokeswoman Esther Miape said. "We sent our bomb squad to determine what they are and as a precaution evacuated Loyola Marymount University."

Miape said the bomb squad had not yet determined the nature of the explosives but FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said it was "old military munitions." She said there was no evidence of any terrorist activity.

FYI

Posters target terrorist threat

The posters encouraging vigilance will be on billboards
More than 2,000 posters warning people about potential terrorist threats are being put up by police in Essex.
Two different posters are being used in the campaign, with one aimed at raising awareness of how terrorists operate in the community.

The second poster is for retailers, alerting them to the fact terrorists raise money through cheque and credit card fraud.

The posters will be on billboards to encourage people to be more vigilant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/3658983.stm

I was watching them update this on CHP site...whenever it gets really hot here you start seeing some suspicious things happening. After the second 'incident' appeared on the log about a structure or grass fire, it popped it to the "hot spots" page, and so I saw it a few minutes later. Within a really short amount of time they had the description of the person and everything...they're obviously trying to stay even more on top of this after last time.

Wonder if it's the same guys, though...this is what happened in Oct. in the same general area...guys in a white vw van (from that CHP report).