At his sister's home back on West Las Flores Drive, he finds multi-coloured plastic lawn ornaments stuck in her lawn, somehow untouched by fire.

But tucked into some bushes was a bucket and a toy lawn mower.

While trying to navigate streets, Nunes watched a lawn catch on fire.

To intimidate her, she said, he’d been leaving dead animals on her lawn.

Roses are tougher than you’d think — during the drought I spied many residential yards with dead lawns and an old rose bush still valiantly blooming despite neglect and lack of water.