Jay

Fresnel lenses (like the kind you can tear out of old projection tv’s) work great for that, but they’re kind of a pain and bulky, and very impractical. I have one I took out of an old 55" projection tv. I think charcoal firestarters by a tire works better and can be “deployed” in seconds, but concentrated light is still pretty cool. This vid shows how well they can work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbrXUBU_gkM

Good point. I didn’t think to add that because I rarely carry my tracking devices with me.

Filming only helps so much though. Cover your face and anything identifying, wear clothes and shoes from a thrift store, put a pebble in your shoe (to force you to walk differently) etc, and it’s pretty hard to link you to anything without some solid evidence.

Accelerants and or/ firestarters placed near the tires. Once you get the rubber burning the rest kind of takes care of itself.