Just a month after it occurred, last August, it had already been determined that there was a human cause for the River Fire. And the now-completed Cal Fire investigation has also concluded that it wasn’t arson. Mary Eldridge, with the Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit, says they also found the origin of the blaze, in the Bear River camping area. But she says it wasn’t, as suspected, in a designated camp site…

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But Eldridge says there was no evidence that the 26-hundred acre blaze was intentionally set…

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Eldridge says an exact ignition source was never found. The River Fire destroyed 142 homes in Nevada as well as Placer Counties, with the entire town of Colfax also evacuated.