Pot-growing operation may have sparked Rim fire, local chief says

Todd McNeal, fire chief in the town of Twain Harte, tells community members the Rim fire in Yosemite may have been caused by a ‘marijuana-grow type of thing.’

Despite stubborn heat and wind over the Labor Day weekend, firefighters battling the Rim fire burning into Yosemite National Park tightened their grip around the historic blaze and turned their focus to what caused it.

    



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