30 June 2016 (04:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714

“There were people up there shooting off fireworks;  mortars, the ones that will go up in the air.”-Taylor Kemp, telling Boise news media that he saw people setting off fireworks despite a burn ban.  Kemp says the perpetrators ran as soon as the fire started.

In the above pic you can barely see the white Table Rock Cross has survived the inferno.  A KBOI videographer reported that one explosion was a home that had been burning.

Moonrise over Table Rock Fire.  Aryssa May Hutchins explained that the fire started just east of  important federal and state government structures: Idaho Botanical Garden, Millennium Seed Bank, Idaho State Archives.