A boy playing with matches started a Southern California wildfire

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A boy playing with matches started a Southern California wildfire that scorched more than 38,000 acres, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.

A firefighter talks on a radio while battling the Buckweed blaze on October 22.

The Buckweed Fire, which destroyed 21 homes on its rampage, began October 21 in the Agua Dulce community.

"Our arson explosive detectives, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Fire Department investigators, immediately began their investigation, and during the course of the investigation, it led to a juvenile suspect," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Tony Moore told CNN's "American Morning" Wednesday.

"After talking with that juvenile, he admitted to playing with matches, and accidentally starting the fire in that area," he said. Watch what's next for young suspect »

The boy, whose name and age were not given, is home with his parents, police said. The case will be presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney for possible charges.

According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Buckweed Fire burned 38,526 acres.

Sixty-three structures, 21 of them homes, were destroyed, and three civilians and two firefighters were injured.

The eye of wisdom

The eye of wisdom (digest)







The power of discrimination is the ability to discern the subtle and separate what is true from false.
Discrimination is the art of seeing. Not with the physical eyes but with the inner eye, the eye of wisdom. It sees what what is true and false.
Today, it is possible to create an artificial diamond which looks like the real thing.
To the layman there is no defference but to an experienced jeweller, are noticed throungh the eye of experience and knowledge.


With my inner eye, I am straightforward and unbiased in all my dealings, unfraid of expressing what is in my heart.
When conflicting feelings weigh me down, I make make time to clarify them so that what I communicate is genuine and responsive.
Seeing things for what they are, myself included, I manifest the potential that God sees in me. I love the secrets of the universe as they reveal themselves in my life.
Spiritual sight is like jeweller's eye. Seeing what is true is only possible when there is an understanding of the values which govern our life.
Only then can the illusions of superficial beauty and falsehood parading as truth be dispelled.
Without the development of this inner ability to discriminate, it is like that our journey will be a path of many deadends and frequent mistake.


THOUGHT ＦＯＲ REFLECTION:
I recognise my destiny. I flow with it,
accepting all, and live with and porpose.
--By Bridget Menezes (author of Self-
Empowerment)