U.S. Forest Service officials investigating the cause of this summer’s Ferguson Fire in Mariposa County said evidence now points to some type of truck or large vehicle.
Stanton Florea, spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service, said the overheated pieces of catalytic converter responsible for the 96,901-acre Mariposa County blaze that burned for more than a month between July and August were relatively large, leading investigators to believe it came from a truck or a larger vehicle.
“It could still have been a sedan, it’s just not as likely based on the pieces that were there,” Florea said. Still, he said, fire investigators encouraged anyone with information to come forward regardless of whether it may contradict findings released to the public so far. “Our biggest thing is soliciting information from the public,” he said.