Last year, authorities questioned him in two fire-related cases in Spokane, according to a probable cause statement filed in Spokane County Superior Court. One involved several “bus-sized” fires in an area near Farinacci’s apartment in July 2025, police records in that case say. Child’s daughter called 911 and he drove back to the spot where he’d seen the man, Spokane County Sheriff’s Detective Michael Drapeau wrote in the probable cause statement. 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.