Labor Day weekend 2021 up in Lake Tahoe, California, was spent evacuating residents and tourists while the Golden State threw everything it had to fight the Caldor fire. The wildfire, exacerbated by California’s long-standing drought burned over 221,000 acres of land, forest, and homes. The fire, which began on Aug. 14, was not until the third week of October that officials pronounced the fire fully contained. On Wednesday the El Dorado County Attorney’s offie announced it had arrested David Scott Smith, 66, and his son Travis Shane Smith, 32 in connection with starting the blaze. The two men are each being held on $1 million bail. The Reno Gazette Journal reports that the Smiths are facing multiple charges of reckless arson, and of the multiple charges being faced by the two men, possessing a silencer and converting a firearm into a machine gun or manufacturing a machine gun are on the list. If and how the latter charges are connected to the fire itself is unclear. Read more