A California warehouse worker has been arrested on multiple felony arson charges after allegedly filming himself setting fire to a 1.2-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark distribution centre while declaring that his employer had failed to pay workers enough to live on.
The blaze, which broke out at approximately 00:30 on 7 April 2026 at a facility on Merrill Avenue in Ontario, California, roughly 56 kilometres (35 miles) east of downtown Los Angeles, escalated within minutes to a six-alarm response. Around 175 firefighters from more than a dozen agencies across San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Riverside Counties battled the fire throughout the night, according to the Ontario Fire Department.
