“Why are the trees still standing while everything else has burned down?”, a user on X asks rhetorically.
It’s a question asked by many on social media – and many seem to already have the answer: Laser beams are behind the extensive fires in California, and explain why houses in particular have been hit, while trees in the area appear to be completely unharmed.
Conspiracy theories about the fires in California, the cause of which is still unknown, have been rampant. A common theme revolves around everything being staged by someone with as dark as diabolical motivations.
Pictures and clips of alleged “space laser beams” and untouched trees constitute evidence.
But, the phenomenon can be explained completely without laser.
In the video above, forest fire researcher Johan Sjöström explains what has happened.