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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral has been arrested aft a bid of fires successful Deadwood Mountain successful Madera County that burned 11 acres, the Madera County Sheriff's Office announced.
Deputies accidental astir 10:40 p.m. connected July 19, they, on with Cal Fire, responded to a study of a occurrence connected Deadwood Mountain, overlooking Oakhurst.
Once occurrence suppression efforts were successful, sheriff's officials accidental Cal Fire Law Enforcement began their probe into the root of the fire. Pao Xiong, 68, of Oakhurst, was contacted. He lived connected the spot wherever the occurrence had started.
According to officials, determination were 14 abstracted fires that time which burned 11 acres of onshore and 4 structures.
In enactment of Cal Fire's archetypal investigation, the Madera County Sheriff's Special Enforcement Team (MADSET) and the Madera County Narcotic Enforcement Team (MADNET) assigned detectives to place the idiosyncratic liable for these fires. The Sheriff's Office says Xiong was identified arsenic a superior idiosyncratic of involvement successful these fires.
Sheriff's officials accidental helium was placed nether surveillance to guarantee helium did not instrumentality to the spot oregon further endanger the residents surviving successful the area.
On Aug. 22, investigators accidental they arrested Xiong astatine a location successful the 1600 artifact of South Bush Avenue successful Fresno. He was booked astatine the Madera County Jail successful transportation with 14 felony counts of arson.
