One involved several “bus-sized” fires in an area near Farinacci's apartment in July 2025, police records in that case say. He gave a police officer a description of the man he had seen — bald, white, wearing a green shirt and carrying a backpack. The Washington State Patrol made contact with Farinacci the following month while pursuing a suspect in a wildfire at Riverside State Park. He was wearing a green T-shirt just like the one he was seen wearing on Saturday, the document says. More than 1,000 firefighters, many from outside of Washington state, were in the Spokane area Tuesday, and that number was expected to rise.