{"id":491093,"date":"2026-10-10T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:10:08","slug":"santa-clarita-man-faces-federal-arson-charges-for-allegedly-starting-bouquet-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491093\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clarita man faces federal arson charges for allegedly starting Bouquet Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old man from Santa Clarita has been charged with setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/castaic-canyon-brush-fire-bouquet-fire-los-angeles-county-fire-department-angeles-national-forest\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Bouquet Fire<\/a>, which burned more than 1,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Ameile Saba is charged with arson involving federal property in connection with the wildfire, which started near his home on October 3, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office. The fire prompted evacuations orders and threatened structures and powerlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moments before the fire, Saba allegedly warned a neighbor to expect a loud sound like a shotgun blast. Witnesses then heard a powerful explosion followed by Saba yelling for help and a fire quickly spreading up the hillside, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire investigators with the U.S. Forest Service determined that fireworks probably caused the Bouquet Fire. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege that Saba admitted to throwing a cigarette from his porch onto fireworks, causing them to explode and ignite the blaze. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities later recovered a lighter, cigarettes, shotgun ammunition, and an aerial mortar firework from Saba&#8217;s cabin, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrested Saba, who is expected to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old man from Santa Clarita has been charged with setting the Bouquet Fire, which burned more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-491093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}