Damin Anthony Pashilk
Damin Anthony Pashilk
Damin Pashilk is an arsonist with a long criminal record who was also a former inmate firefighter.
He has 12 prior arrests since 2005.
In 2002 he was arrested for drug possession and firearm charges.
[5]He was arrested in 2009 on drug and weapons charges after a traffic stop on a friend led officers to his house.
He pointed a loaded handgun at them at that time.
[3]He was paroled in July 2007 and was imprisoned six more times for violating his parole, but did not work as a firefighter again before he finally left parole in 2011.
He was recently arrested in September of 2015 on a bench warrant.
His house burned down in 2013, and a Go Fund Me was set up and they raised more than $1,200. [9]
He is considered to be a supporter of Nazi ideology. [-1]
Clayton Fire
On August 15th, 2016, Pashilk, was arrested on suspicion of 17 counts of arson.
He was being held at the Lake County Jail in lieu of $5 million bail, as firefighters started to get the better of the 4,000-acre Clayton Fire, upping containment to 35 percent by Tuesday evening.
The 4,000-acre in Lake County, California spread with frightening speed through the small town of Lower Lake on the southern edge of Clear Lake, ravaging Main Street and wiping out much of its small commercial district. [6]
Thousands of people — some of them already dubbed “fire survivors” after last year — fled as they awaited word on whether their homes and businesses were still standing.
By Monday afternoon, the fire had destroyed at least 175 structures and threatened 1,500 more, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
It was only 5% contained.
On other social media however, the citizens of Lake County are furious, and expressing their wish for old time street justice.
A friend of Pashilk has said that he would never hurt anyone, and never start a wildfire - he says that on the day that wildfires began, Pashilk visited his property to make sure he was OK.