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The media told us climate change.

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With over 40 years of experience, forensic arborist Robert Brom has been investigating the damage from these suspicious fires since Paradise.

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Based on his evidence, these fires are being caused by some sort of directed energy weapon.

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As many of us suspected, the trees in these recent forest fires are not burning as they should be.

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This is common for a horrific firestorm.

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This is what's left.

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They all look like this.

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There's nothing left.

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The twigs, the needles, the branches, even the trees will burn down sometime to a low stump or even a hole in the ground.

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Not like this one.

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This was the big coffee park fire in Santa Rosa where 4,700 homes were turned to white ash.

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And look at the trees.

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Why aren't they missing along with the houses?

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Many of these are pine family relatives.

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Eucalyptus against that road there or whatever that is against the road.

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Those are eucalyptus back there, the round ones.

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Those are so flammable.

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Well, a cigarette lighter in your hand can light those on fire.

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A green leaf, light them right on fire.

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The forest is primarily valley oak, blue oak, and California bay, which is a very combustible leaf.

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I can light them on fire again without a cigarette lighter.

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They didn't burn.

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There's a bay tree right there.

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The bottoms will always be burned right at ground level.

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No reason for that.

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Grass couldn't do that.

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Uh-uh.

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Right.

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A lot of flames to do that.

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Now, they're being cooked right where they're at.

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This was an entire bay forest, and I couldn't find one leaf burned.

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And somehow the leaves turned black.

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You notice the bottoms of these little suckers here.

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They're black.

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Almost every tree here is a bay.

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They didn't burn, but the ground did.

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It's only a grass fire here.

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You can tell this was just grass, and it might even have been kept up.

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I don't see one burned tree.

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There's ponderosa pine, black oak, white oak.

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There's a deodar cedar to the left there a little bit.

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That's pine family from the Himalayas.

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And a digger pine on the left, the big multi-branched one.

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Nothing wanted to burn that day.

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It's just the house.

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Ponderosa pine forest.

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Little sharp ones and everything.

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Where the flames are in the needles, they refuse to ignite.

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Here's your eucalyptus.

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It's down in the flames.

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Refuse to burn.

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Upper foothill or lower pine belt here.

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Very flammable areas.

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And no, they're not burning.

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And look in the background.

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Chunks of metal everywhere.

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The physics of a natural fire does not explain the way aluminum and glass have been melting.

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The two fire captains told me in their combined 60 years, they've never, ever seen a window melt out.

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Incidentally, every fire I've been to, all these 120 trips, not one window has been intact.

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Every single one has melted out.

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No exceptions.

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There's your aluminum.

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What's melting it this far away?

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What's keeping it flowing?

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These things will flow 20 or 30 feet from a car when there's nothing on the ground to keep them melting.

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That's a high temperature.

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But they keep flowing right across the dirt.

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The fires are breaking out in the metallic materials.

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Here's a fence line.

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They all look like this.

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Burned at the nails, burned at the ground.

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The only place they burn is at the ground and wherever the metals were.

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What fire does that?

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A normal fire would burn the post from the bottom up, not skip spots.

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No, they favor the metals, of course.

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This is a tall post, perhaps five or six feet high.

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And way up high, eye level, just the nail area burned.

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Here's this board.

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What really burned?

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The nail is on that board.

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This little guardrail is a park guardrail.

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And actually, it's all wood.

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There's no metal here.

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The cross member, the long ones, and the post are all wood.

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And each one was burned like this, where the screws were.

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And trees are burning from the inside out.

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Many trees are cooking from the inside out.

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They're burned on the inside, and there's no hole to get a flame in there.

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This thing was about four feet in diameter in a spring, burned from the inside out, and not one leaf burned.

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When you look at the cuts, this is very important.

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These are 90% dead.

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They should not have that heartwood.

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The dark, dark area is the heartwood.

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It shows me these things were cooked from the inside out.

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There are many anomalies to be found in these fires.

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And here's a soil bag.

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It still had soil in it.

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That was there.

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The tennis shoe was there.

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And you can see the black.

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There's black everywhere.

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A cushion for your chair.

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I see this chainsaw in the back of this pickup truck.

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The window melted out at 2,500 degrees.

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All the tires burned completely, leaving the slinky-like steel belts.

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That plastic should be gone completely down to the metals.

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It didn't happen.

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There's so much white ash in some of these photos.

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It looks like the heat would have been really intense.

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However, it didn't reach very far.

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Why is that?

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Why is everything reduced to white ash versus...

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Well, I'm going to have to say it's because of the extreme heat.

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It's a different kind of flame.

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To me, these are microwave-based flames.

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Greg Reese reporting.