Authorities said a search of a Woodlake home earlier this month uncovered evidence connecting a resident to a series of arson fires around Woodlake.
On Wednesday, CAL FIRE presented its findings to the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office and requested that Humberto Gonzalez be charged with setting the woodland and grassland fires, which ranged in size from five to 80 acres, CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Paul Marquez said during a Thursday press conference in the Woodlake City Council chambers.
The first three fires occurred June 19, 20 and 21 of last year, while the rest occurred on May 22 and 27 and June 10 of this year. All were in rural areas north and northwest of Woodlake.
Officials would not say what was found in the home Gonzalez lived in that prompted Woodlake police to call in fire investigators. The search was conducted June 12 in the 300 Block of South Magnolia Street.
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