The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has arrested one of its own employees who is suspected of starting five different fires while he was off duty.

A Cal Fire employee was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of igniting a string of fires near Geyserville, Healdsburg and Windsor, officials said. Cal Fire officers arrested Robert Hernandez, 38, of Healdsburg,

A California firefighter has been arrested and accused of setting five blazes in the state's wine country, even as his fellow firefighters battle flames that have consumed almost a million acres and forced thousands of evacuations in the state this year.