Hot weather is hitting the Bay Area, as investigators remain focused on some recent suspicious fires in the City of San Jose.
The fires are happening just south of Downtown San Jose. Up one hill, you can see a burn scar from one recent fire. Interstate 280 is just over the top. You can see several of these burn scars along 280 and in the nearby Coyote Meadows.
Both are areas with significant numbers of homeless encampments.
“If you look over there, you can where the fire was,” said one homeless woman, who did not reveal her name to KRON4.
As she collected recyclables in Coyote Meadows, the homeless woman said she suspects the recent fires are not simply the result of cook fires but were deliberately set.