Last spring the high school was shut down for two days after a rash of fires, bomb threats and fights.
Environmental activists were initially suspected in a rash of fires in southern Maryland in late 2004 that destroyed 12 houses and damaged a total of 40.
Nearly a century ago, after a rash of fires, the state decided to build lookout towers on the highest Catskills peaks.
A rash of fires in the valley has turned the Big Sky into the Red Sky, a bloodshot whirl of smoke and fancy colors.
Delange blames misplaced priorities in the federal bureaucracies for the rash of fires that have swept the region's forests and grasslands in the past two decades.
The latest rash of fires started around midnight, and the 911 calls came moments apart, first from North Hollywood, sending firefighters scrambling to the new area.
One, for instance, put the students in charge of publicity for a state's tourism bureau and asked them to write a news release meant to reassure the public that a tourist area was still safe after a rash of fires.
Col. Noel C. Gregory, the battalion commander who had fought on Guadalcanal 10 years earlier, felt the rash of fires reflected badly on his leadership.
The rash of fires is the worst since 2010, when Israel suffered the single deadliest wildfire in its history.
Arab community leaders complained to Israeli news outlets which, alluding to Palestinian uprisings against Israel, described the rash of fires as an "arson intifada.'' .
But arson vexes the city so deeply that Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager appointed by the Michigan governor to fix Detroit's decrepit finances, has said he needs to act to address the rash of fires, too.
