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Aaron Farinacci ignited the Old Trails Fire in Spokane with just a cigarette, a pack of matches and a rubber band, authorities said. A gunman shot and killed his grandparents before killing five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday, Thailand’s prime minister said, in the country’s deadliest mass killing since 2022. The man accused of starting one of the fires burning in Washington state was charged with four additional first-degree counts of arson after investigators linked him to blazes dating back to July 2025.