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Old photos are being misrepresented online to fuel a conspiracy theory about the Maui wildfires | AP News
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Viral images claiming to show evidence that 'directed energy weapons' were the cause of the Maui fires are not true | 13newsnow.com
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Conspiracists say lasers and exploding smart meters used to start bush fires to make way for a new train network - NZ Herald
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Wildfire science: computer models, drones and laser scanning help fan the flames and prevent widespread devastation - BBC Science Focus Magazine
A man checking out the wildfires found this tree blazing from ... | Amidst the California wildfires, this man found a hollow tree full of fire and glowing from the flames http://cnn.it/2yiRbIx
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Human-caused climate change at the center of recent California wildfires | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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No, California wildfires aren't caused by space lasers, and experts want people to stop asking about it
A video doesn't show a laser beam igniting Maui's wildfires. It's a transformer explosion in Chile | AP News
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