LAist: Malibu Fire - Could Be Arson, Also Flea's House Burned

Elise Thompson

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:00:45 -0800

The Californication album cover with the pool by the ocean on fire - maybe not karma, but super coincidence or irony.

Tony Pierce

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:14:14 -0800

my bad Imzeigler

ben bang

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:06:04 -0800

Hmmmmm... one week flea (and bandmates) files frivolous lawsuit, the next his home goes up in flames. Karma?

marc22386

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:59:57 -0800

I know exactly where this fire started and I have doubts it was arson. The mesa peak mountainway is supposedly the origin point, and there is a cave up there that people go up to party at late at night (no cops, no neighbors, etc.). I wouldn't be surprised if the fire was traced to that exact spot, but I doubt it was intentional. I would bet someone was careless tossing a cigarette or blunt or something, as the cave and mountainway are on the highest ridgeline. The winds up there must have been unreal that night — the perfect flashpoint for something like this.

lmzeigler

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:19:22 -0800

"Human activity" is what the LA Times is reporting is the cause of the fires. That's arson if it wasn't an accident." So we don't know if it's an accident or arson, yet in the headline you definitively say that it is Arson. This is why blogs are not respected by the mainstream. This is the type of yellow journalism I would expect from Fox News.