Channel Islands Fire Started Accidentally by Shipwrecked Sailor

2026-05-19 01:36 • ;Soumya Karlamangla
The shipwrecked man was rescued from Channel Islands National Park, but the flares set off a 10,000-acre fire that has burned park buildings, forced evacuations and threatened rare Torrey pines.
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