Here comes ‘global warming’ again in Spokane — otherwise known as ‘arson’

So after all the pontificating about ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ in the catastrophic fire that destroyed 700 homes in Spokane, Washington, global warming comes down to an arrest police say is named Aaron Farinacci, whom they charged with arson.

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According to the California Post:

Authorities on Monday arrested a 37-year-old man they suspect of starting one of the devastating wildfires tearing through eastern Washington state as many residents were left wondering if their homes had survived.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said 37-year-old Aaron F. Farinacci was arrested and booked on suspicion of arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire. He is being held on $1 million bond. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

The fire that sparked Saturday is one of several burning around Spokane, the state’s second-largest city. They are among the most destructive blazes in state history, together destroying at least 700 structures and forcing roughly 67,000 people to evacuate.

This video of the local sheriff giving a briefing describes how an alert citizen called authorities when a man behaving suspiciously kept bending down at the flammable railroad tracks and upon being searched by lawmen, was found to be carrying a butane lighter and some waterproof matches. He’d even been questioned earlier about another fire.

Oh, and the 37-year-old Arizona man had also gone to jail at the age of 21, for a short stretch anyway, for killing his father after an arguing about doing the dishes, reports say.

According to the Seattle Times:

The investigator reviewed Washington State Patrol’s investigation of the Aug. 11, 2025, fire, which included photographs of a man seen in the area wearing a green T-shirt bearing the words, “Who needs luck I have charm,” and of a Bic lighter he was presumably carrying at the time.

The investigator learned the same man was also contacted by Spokane police one month earlier regarding a separate report of potential arson, according to the affidavit. 

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Officials did not charge him in either incident. 

The man moved to Spokane sometime after he was released in 2020 from federal prison in Arizona, 10 years after he fatally shot his father inside their Mesa home during an argument about doing the dishes.

The son, then 21, was charged with first-degree murder, and pleaded guilty to manslaughter two years later. He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, with credit for time already served in jail, according to Maricopa County Superior Court records.

The dad’s death coincided with this one:

… which suggests a miserable character who belonged in jail and who should have been left in jail instead of let out with such a light sentence. Now 700 homes are gone affecting tens of thousands of innocent residents. The sheriff’s account suggests the fire-starting was pretty deliberate, and especially so since his name came up in earlier fires.

So much for global warming. A lousy criminal justice system, an excess of ‘rights’ for convicts, and a heaping helping of rage and malice were behind this one. The hot dry conditions were just hot dry conditions, and far from the cause of the conflagration. 

This by the way, isn’t the only arsonist behind a big fire in ‘an urban interface.’ A similar misfit has been charged with setting off the Lachman fire, which morphed into the Palisades fire in 2024-2025. A jury couldn’t come to an unanimous verdict on whether to convict him, so he may be tried all over again.

Just don’t call this terrible new social phenomenon, comparable to that of trans mass shooters anybody’s ‘global warming.’

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