Remember that big ol’ freaking fire on Angel Island earlier this week? Well, it turns out, we were lying when we claimed “We didn’t start the fire.” And when we say we, we mean the larger general “we” of humankind. Through process of elimination, the Marin County Fire Department deduced that the fire was most likely started by people. Human people, that is. And–rest assured–the Marin County Fire Department will find the ones responsible. The good news is, if there hadn’t been a fire on Angel Island, and we hadn’t read the article about its origin, we wouldn’t have learned all these cool new things.

Here are some things we learned from the SF Examiner’s article about the Angel Island fire: read more »