Cal Fire said apparatus engineer Robert Hernandez ignited the blazes while off duty between Aug. 14 and Sept. 15 in forest land near Geyserville, Healdsburg and Windsor.

A Cal Fire firefighter has been arrested for allegedly igniting five fires in the North Bay in recent weeks when he was off duty. At 8 a.m. Friday, Cal Fire law enforcement officers arrested 38-year-old Robert Hernandez of Healdsburg at the agency’s Howard Forest station in Mendocino County on suspicion of arson to forest land

Robert Hernandez, an apparatus engineer for Cal Fire, is suspected of starting five blazes on forest land in the North Bay that burned less than an acre combined.

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Robert Hernandez, a 38-year-old fire apparatus engineer with Cal Fire, the state’s main firefighting agency, was arrested on suspicion of setting fires on forest land near the Northern California towns of Geyserville, Healdsburg and Windsor between Aug. 15 and Sept. 14.

A forestry fire engineer was arrested in California Friday, charged with starting five wildfires from Aug. 15 to Sept. 14 in Sonoma County.

A California firefighter has been arrested and accused of setting five blazes in the state's wine country, even as his fellow firefighters battle flames that have consumed almost a million acres and forced thousands of evacuations in the state this year.

A Cal Fire firefighter was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of starting five separate wildfires in the state within the last six weeks.

An employee of California's state fire protection agency has been arrested on suspicion of starting five forest fires in recent weeks, local officials have said. Robert Hernandez, a 38-year-old apparatus engineer at Cal Fire,