Glendora police took three men into custody and booked them for recklessly starting the blaze, dubbed the Colby Fire. They have been identified as Clifford Eugene Henry, Jr., 22, of Glendora; Jonathan Carl Jarrell, 23, of Irwindale; and Steven Robert Aguirre, 21, homeless of the Los Angeles area. The men claimed they were sitting around a camp fire when a breeze kicked up, starting a fire. "They were tossing papers into the campfire and a breeze -- reportedly -- a breeze had kicked up and set this fire," said Glendora police Chief Tim Staab during a press conference. The three men initially denied their involvement.
"They said that they were scared because there was a huge fire. They were fleeing from the fire is what they told me," said Cpl. Nancy Miranda with the Glendora Police Department.
Two of the men were seen running away from the mountains when first responders arrived, and a third man was taken off the mountain by the U.S. Forest Service.
Police found marijuana and cigarettes in the backpacks of two of the men.
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