ANTIFA ARSONISTS FOR MARX BUSTED: Four people arrested for INTENTIONALLY starting blazes on West Coast as wildfires ravage the region

FOUR people have now been arrested on the West Coast for deliberately starting blazes as wildfires rage.

Cops detained two men in Washington, man in Oregon and woman in California as the desperate battle to contain the fires continues.

So far 24 people have been killed though the authorities in Oregon have told residents to brace themselves for a “mass fatality incident”.

Oregon Live reports Michael Jarrod Bakkela, 41, has been arrested on two counts of arson, 15 counts of criminal mischief and 14 counts of reckless endangerment.

The fire Bakkela started is considered to be one of the origins of the Almeda fire and the two quickly merged, said Oregon State Fire Marshal’s office spokesman Rich Tyler.

Photos show the towns of Phoenix and Talent reduced to ashes after the Almeda fire tore through.

It has killed two people, destroyed a thousand homes and laid waste to 5700 acres.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said on Tuesday evening, a Phoenix resident saw a person, who was later identified as Bakkela, lighting a fire behind their house.

Embers light up a hillside behind the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California Credit: AP:Associated Press

Because of the blaze, the residents who saw him set the fire had to flee their home.

State troopers and sheriff’s deputies who arrived saw Bakkela standing close to a large fire that was...

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