We will add this to our Animal Arson series.

Last Spring in Arkansas Missouri:

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“Only in the Ozarks: We had a fire in Carter County yesterday just East of Van Buren and on the fire report the cause we listed it as debris burning. Well this cause doesn’t give the whole story justice: Well so here it goes, the landowner was burning a dead coyote in his front yard nothing real unusual about that but slightly on the edge of normal for Carter county. Now we’re getting to the details, the landowner had several hounds running around that had a mange problem. The landowner decided that he would treat them with used motor oil and a few other liquids, now you see where this is going. Well one of the treated dogs got too close to the burning coyote and burst into flames. This treated flaming hound then took off across a field thus setting it on fire during a red flag day. But luck was on our side as it didn’t take long for the flaming hound to burn out thus keeping our wildfire acres to a manageable size from this arson hound.”