Aaron Farinacci told investigators he planned the Old Trails blaze for two weeks, using a weather app to research conditions, according to the prosecutors’ affidavit.

The Spokane wildfires show how extreme heat, dry vegetation, strong winds and expanding development can transform one ignition into a disaster that destroys hundreds of homes.

Aaron Farinacci, told police in an interview that “fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of rebirth,”