The good news is this week the Padres had a winning homestand for the first time in 2016. The bad news is they could have taken a series from the reigning National League champs but blew more than a few chances to do it.

The Friars fell to the Mets 4-3 on Sunday, completing a 4-3 week at Petco Park. New York scored a pair of runs in the 2nd inning and got another in the 3rd on a long solo home run from Mets slugger Yoenis Cespedes, who took Padres starter Andrew Cashner deep for his third dinger of the 4-game series.

San Diego got a pair back in the 5th inning when Christian Bethancourt hit a mammoth home run off Mets starter Matt Harvey. The 2-run shot landed deep in the second deck of the left field bleachers and cut the lead to 3-2.

Later in the 5th Cashner struck out but reached first base when the ball bounced away from NY catcher Kevin Plawecki. Jon Jay followed with a line drive in to the right field corner. Padres 3rd base coach Glenn Hoffman decided to send Cashner, who looked to get his hand under the tag but was ruled out by home plate umpire Ramon De Jesus, a call upheld by replay officials in New York.

Cashner also had to leave the game due to what the Padres called a right hamstring cramp.

The teams traded runs and in the bottom of the 8th the Padres had their golden opportunity to tie it up. With two runners on Matt Kemp lined a single to left field but Hoffman decided to hold Jay at third base instead of letting him try and score. The next three at-bats went like this:

Derek Norris came on to pinch-hit and struck out.

Melvin Upton Jr. popped out on the infield.

Alexei Ramirez struck out.

New York manager Terry Collins even decided to play the middle infield back, trading a double play for the tying run, and the Padres could not get even one run home.

San Diego opens a 3-game series on Monday at Wrigley Field against the Cubs, who have the best record in Major League Baseball.

Donald Trump called Mitt Romney “ungrateful” for his support during the 2012 Republican primary during an interview with NBC News’ Chuck Todd on Sunday. 

"I believe I won him, or helped him win five states that he was going to lose in the primaries," Trump said, addressing “every single robocall” he made for the former Republican presidential nominee and Massachusetts governor. 

Romney has been an outspoken critic of Trump. His name is being floated as a possible third-party candidate. 

Pressed on if he believed Romney was "ungrateful" for his support, Trump replied, "He was. He was ungrateful. Which is okay. A lot of people are ungrateful. But he was ungrateful. They did not respond accordingly."

Here’s a look ahead at what is going on in San Diego sports for the week of May ninth to the 15th.

GULLS: The second round of the Calder Cup Playoffs continue for the Gulls. Friday they host the Ontario Reign in game four, puck drops at 7:05 p.m. Game five is Saturday in Ontario if needed.

PADRES: The Friars are back on the road this week. They play in Chicago Monday-Wednesday against the Cubs, Thursday-Sunday the Padres are in Milwaukee to face the Brewers.

ALBION PROS: Saturday the Albion Pros host Frontera United at Mission Bay High School at 5 p.m.

NC BATTALION: The North County Battalion are at home this weekend at Del Norte High School and it’s soccer for a cause. Saturday they host the SC Corinthians at 7 p.m. and its Firefighters Appreciation Night. Game day ticket proceeds will be donated to Firefighter Aid which provides charitable assistance to firefighters and their families in times of crisis.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY AZTECS:
-WOMENS WATERPOLO: Tuesday vs. Wagner in an NCAA Championships play –in at UCSD 4 p.m.
-WOMENS TRACK: Wednesday-Saturday at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships in Fresno.
-SOFTBALL: Thursday and Friday vs. Boise State 6 p.m. and Saturday vs. Boise State 11 a.m.
-BASEBALL: Friday vs. Air Force 6 p.m., Saturday vs. Air Force 12 p.m. and TBA and Sunday vs. Air Force 1 p.m.
-WOMENS ROWING: Saturday at the American Athletic Conference Championship in Lake Natoma.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO TRITONS:
-MENS TENNIS: Monday at the NCAA West Regional at Azusa Pacific 1:30 p.m.
-WOMENS WATER POLO: Tuesday vs. Whittier in an NCAA Championship play-in game at UCSD 6 p.m.
-BASEBALL: Wednesday-Saturday at the CCAA Championship in Stockton.
-WOMENS ROWING: Friday-Saturday at the Dad Vail Championships in Philadelphia all day.
-MENS ROWING: Saturday at the Western Sprints Championship in Rancho Cordova all day.
-TRACK & FIELD: Saturday at the Westmont All On the Line Open in Santa Barbara 10 a.m.

POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY SEA LIONS:
-BASEBALL: Monday vs. Fresno Pacific 12 p.m., Tuesday vs. Fresno Pacific 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO TOREROS:
-BASEBALL: Tuesday at UC Irvine 6:30 p.m., Saturday at Pacific TBA & 3:30 p.m. and Sunday at Pacific 1 p.m.
-MENS TENNIS: Friday vs. Vanderbilt TBA and Saturday vs. either UCLA or Weber St. TBA.
-SOFTBALL: Friday vs. BYU 6 p.m. and Saturday vs. BYU 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
-WOMENS ROWING: Saturday at the WCC Championships in Gold River, California.
-MENS CREW: Saturday at PCRC’s in Rancho Cordova.

A 61-year-old pilot was airlifted to the hospital Sunday after the small four-seater plane he was piloting crash-landed onto a roof near the 10 and 57 Freeways in Pomona Sunday.

"Like a plane just came super low!" Anthony Moreno, witness, said.

The man was airlifted to the hospital following the crash with moderate injuries, LA County Fire officials said.

Reports came in to just before 4:45 p.m. of a plane crashing onto a roof near 971 West Corporate Drive.

Drivers on the freeway began calling 911 when they saw the plane going down.

"Then a few minutes later, cars were going by really fast, then we heard sirens and a helicopter flying really low too," Moreno said.

The California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles County Fire Department were en route to the scene Sunday afternoon after the small Piper Aircraft, on its way to Brackett Airfield, crash-landed onto a roof.

"We saw it hit. We saw the impact. We figured it was a roof and it bounced a bit," Kelly Vella said. "We started going, 'Oh my gosh’,' and I called 911."

The plane was slightly wedged into the roof after the landing. No fire or smoke was observed.

The pilot told LA County Fire officials that the plane "lost power," and he went down. He suffered a broken leg, and head injuries.

LA County Fire officials originally said one person was evaluated at the crash site while another was airlifted to the hospital. 

The FAA could not comment on how many total were aboard, but LA County Fire officials later said that there was only one person, the pilot, on the small Piper PA 28.

Firefighters said he missed crashing through the building by 50 feet.

Tiffany Newby lights up when she talks about her children, but her path to motherhood hasn't been an easy one.

"Waltie was my eighth child,” Newby told NBC 7. “My other children were taken due to addiction and some legal obligations to the State of California."

Ten years ago, Tiffany Newby was living on the streets with Waltie who was just three months old at the time.

She spent her nights riding the trolley, just so he had somewhere to sleep.

"It was a struggle, just things like cleaning bottles, when you're homeless with a baby, diaper changing,” she explained.

It got to a point, Tiffany said, where she couldn't take it anymore, so she enrolled herself in a year-long residential program at the San Diego Rescue Mission.

She sobered up and changed her life.

"It took me four years at the San Diego City College, because I had 103 units before I left there,” Newby said. “My confidence, my self-esteem was still low, but they encouraged me, and they helped me get signed into a bachelor’s. Even though I wasn't in the program anymore, they still helped me get into a bachelor’s."

From there, she pursued her masters and is now planning to get a Ph.D. in criminal justice.

"I had a life. I had family. I had a home. And here I was sleeping on a sidewalk at one point and living in a riverbed at one point,” she said. "But my kids, knowing that I really wanted my children, are what got me going…I have some awesome kids."

After she finishes her Ph.D., Tiffany wants to open a sober-living home for mothers, to help other women like her.

West Virginia state Senate candidate Richard Ojeda was brutally beaten during a cookout Sunday — just two days before his primary — Ojeda told NBC News.

The Democrat and military veteran said he suffered eight bone fractures and three lacerations to his face in an attack by Jonathan Stuart Porter, a local Ojeda had known since childhood.

Ojeda's primary opponent, state Sen. Art Kirkendoll, said in a statement that he was praying for Ojeda and wished him a full recovery. 

Porter peacefully turned himself in after hiding out in the mountains for six hours, State Trooper Zachary Holden said.

A motive for the assault remained unclear, though Ojeda says it was clearly political.

"I'm challenging the powers that be," he said.

A motorcyclist who struck a parking curb in Chula Vista was transported to the hospital with serious head injuries Sunday afternoon, the Chula Vista Police Department (CVPD) confirmed.

Witnesses said she has been practicing turning maneuvers in a parking lot before driving onto the sidewalk, between two pillars where she hit the curb and was thrown from the bike.

The incident happened around 2:17 p.m.

The cyclist was found unresponsive at the scene.

It appears speed may have been a factor in the investigation.

The motorcyclist did not appear to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs and was an inexperienced rider.

The Chula Vista Police Traffic Division will be conducting the investigation.

A 47-mile natural gas pipeline running through parts of Rancho Bernardo and Poway is causing some controversy among residents.

The concern for some with a pipeline running under Pomerado Road is safety in neighborhoods where there are churches, schools and homes.

The San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) pipeline would run from the Riverside county line down to MCAS Miramar.

SDG&E spokesperson Jennifer Ramp said the way things are now San Diego County relies on just one transmission pipeline to bring in 90% of our natural gas.

“A lot of people don't realize how critical natural gas is to our economy. Natural gas fuels our economy,” Ramp said. “This proposed pipeline would provide more reliability to the system so that there are actually two robust pipelines bringing in that clean and affordable natural gas." 

SDG&E is now waiting for approval from the California Public Utilities Commission for the projected $639 million project.

Opponent Rosemary Vandervort said she's already received a notice requesting to raise her rates in her utilities bill. The request regards the ‘pipeline safety and reliability project.’

She argues the project is far from safe and has been fighting against the route running through Pomerado Road for 23 years.

“I just care about the safety of the kids,” Vandervort said. “And if people care about it they need to speak up because otherwise it's going in.”

One concern is construction on the busy road, though Ramp said SDG&E will develop traffic plans.

Vandervort and others worry about an emergency such as an earthquake or gas leak.

“I’m concerned of an event of an earthquake or leak in a pipe that will cause an explosion. How will you evacuate all these people? What is the evacuation plan? And there is none in place as far as I know,” she said. “A major explosion like we had in San Bruno, it could happen here.”

“Our first priority is safety,” Ramp countered. “This project will make the system even safer. Constructed with state of the art technology and will be a safe pipeline.”

Vandervort and other opponents have opened an online petition against the project, which has just over 60 signatures.

SDG&E are asking for a decision from the CA Public Utilities Commission by 2017 so they can put the line in service by 2020.

To look at Sandy Vinge today it’s hard to imagine that she is the same woman who survived a kidnapping.

In 2008 Vinge, now 83, was choked unconscious by a door-to-door salesman. Her hands were tied with duct tape and she was thrown into the back of her own station wagon. Over the next 26 hours the suspects beat her badly and used her stolen credit cards.

It was thanks to a couple of Sheriff’s deputies, who stopped the suspects for a traffic violation, that Vinge was freed.

“Well I'm doing pretty good,” Vinge told NBC 7 at her La Mesa home Sunday. “I'm with my family and friends and I'm doing great…Everything’s going pretty well for me. I’m pretty lucky.”

She said the same deputies who saved her life stop by every once in a while to check on her.

“They're my heroes, the ones that saved me,” she explained. “I have lunch with them and the prosecuting attorney…I have lunch with him and his wife now and then.”

Vinge hasn't let what happened to her slow her down. She lives a very active life, belonging to a swing dance club, the Elk’s Lodge and educating other seniors about how to stay safe.

“They're trusting, old people are trusting,” She explained. “I'm not trusting anymore.”

Vinge said it’s the love and support of her three sons and many friends -- old and new – who have helped her heal after the incident.

She also said she’s grateful that she has more positive wonderful people in her life than she did before that terrible day.

“So it wasn't all bad,” she added. She said after being on the national news people began to recognize her and she "made more friends that way. So I’ve got a lot of friends now.”

A  sprawling weather system lashed the Plains with large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes Sunday injuring at least five people as it crept toward Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

The National Weather Service confirmed that a large tornado and golf ball-size hail were spotted Sunday evening 5 miles southeast of Codell, Kansas. 

The system is expected to continue inching across Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas overnight. 

Forecasters said the system could bring scattered, severe thunderstorms, large hail, damaging winds and some tornadoes to Missouri, eastern Kansas, Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana on Monday.

A Sig Alert has been issued in Pacific Beach after a pedestrian was struck by a car Sunday evening, San Diego police confirmed. 

Northbound Mission Bay Drive is closed while authoriites invesigate. The crash happened around 9:16 p.m. in the 3500 block of Mission Bay Drive.

The pedestrian has major injuries. 

Police said alcohol or drugs were not suspected in the crash, and the collision was not a hit-and-run. 

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

San Diego police (SDPD) have arrested a man on multiple rape-related charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a mother twice and attempting to assault another woman, at knife point, in Balboa Park Thursday night. 

Ismael Hernandez, 27, of Chula Vista, was arrested at approximately 9:20 p.m. Saturday, police announced Sunday. He was booked into San Diego County Jail and charged with rape, kidnap for rape, digital penetration by a foreign object, oral copulation by force, using a dangerous weapon during an assault, criminal threats, false imprisonment and three counts of attempted sexual assault. 

At a press conference Sunday, SDPD Cpt. Brian Ahern said Hernandez is accused of attempting to assault one woman, then sexually assaulting a second woman, twice. 

Thursday night, Hernandez was near 6th Avenue and Cesar Street when he approached the first victim from behind, Ahern said. The victim saw Hernandez in the reflection of her car window and was able to fight him off and run away, he said. 

Ahern said police believe this is the same suspect that attacked a mother shortly after, twice, at knife point. 

Ahern said Hernandez allegedly attacked the second victim shortly after, around 10 p.m. The first encounter happened along the 1600 block of 8th Avenue, as the victim walked to her car parked on 9th Avenue.

As the woman walked, Hernandez allegedly confronted and pulled a knife on her, police said. He threatened to kill the victim if she didn’t follow his orders.

“The suspect brandished a knife and threatened to harm the victim if she didn’t do what he told her to do,” explained SDPD Capt. Brian Ahearn.

Police said Hernandez demanded the victim walk with him into Balboa Park. He made her walk with him down Date Street, near the Interstate 5 fence. As they made their way to the park, he continued to threaten the woman with the knife.

Police said they went up a staircase on 6th Avenue and entered Balboa Park. That's where the man sexually assaulted the woman, police said.

"It's unspeakable what the suspect forced the victim to do," said Ahearn.

The suspect then forced the woman to walk back to the 1600 block of 9th Avenue near Cortez Hill. At that second location, he sexually assaulted her once more, police said.

The suspect fled the scene. When officers arrived, he was nowhere to be found.

No further details were immediately released. The investigation is ongoing and police are looking into whether there are more victims. 

A local mom with multiple sclerosis is leaving a love letter of sorts for her children, in the form of a new book of poetry.

"I decided to write to them because last year I felt uneasy about the future," author Oyuki Aguilar told NBC 7 San Diego. "I felt If I left this earth soon, for whatever reason, there would be many things unsaid."

She says the resulting book, "The Sport of Parenting," turned out to be a kind of "manual for a good and honorable life" for her children, six-year-old Oyuki and five-year-old Omar.

The collection of 30 poems includes topics many parents can relate to, such as "Please Don't Spit Out Your Vegetables," "Board Games," "Selective Hearing Impairment" and "The Invasion of Artwork."

"I am very proud of it, it's a petite book but very big on content," the Jamul mom said. "I guess you can say I poured my heart into it."

In the book, she explains how her MS diagnosis helps her put things in perspective.

"I constantly picture a future in my children's lives without me and that drives me to savor each moment with them," Aguilar wrote.

Nine years ago, Aguilar said her optic nerves froze, and she couldn't move her eyes, so her neurologist ordered a MRI. That's how doctors discovered spots in her brain and ultimately diagnosed her with mutiple sclerosis.

Cortisone treatments brought her sight back to normal in a couple of days. She has had to change her diet and watch her exposure to certain chemicals, as well as change other elements of her lifestyle, to try to prevent the symptoms from returning.

"MS is a tricky thing; you never know how it's going to creep up on you," Aguilar said, "For now it is under control and that is a good thing, however, it is always there in the back of your mind."

She said she wanted to tell her children how happy they had made her life and she wanted to leave them a document that they could always turn to for comfort and guidance.

"In those pages, I describe my feelings at pregnancy, birth, cuddling, diapers, first day of school, first loose tooth," she said. "I also mention the importance of cultivating certain character traits such as humility and gratitude, wisdom and courage."

Aguilar said she decided to share her poems in a book because she felt she could touch other lives, as well.

She also incorporated her children's artwork and her sister's graphic design work.

"The Sport of Parenting" is sold at various bookstores and websites, as well as at the sportofparenting.com.

The California refinery which provides much of the gasoline for Southern California was expected to resume operations Monday evening.

As a result, San Diegans could soon see some relief in the cost of gasoline, according to NBC 7's George Chamberlin.

The ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance was expected to go back online after 7 p.m. Monday after a months-long closure due to an explosion last year.

The surge in gas prices followed the explosion on Feb. 18, 2015.

"Full operations at the Torrance refinery will help to maintain a dependable, local inventory of California-grade gasoline, a specialized blend that meets the state's stringent clean-air regulations," according to ExxonMobile.

San Diegans may not see an immediate change in the price at the pump but Chamberlin said it's in our future.

"We should see a drop in gasoline prices," said NBC 7’s George Chamberlin adding, "it could be somewhat substantial."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will help Donald Trump prepare for the White House should he win the general election this November, the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign announced Monday.

Christie has been named the chairman of Trump’s transition team and will oversee efforts to transition from a campaign to the Oval Office if Trump beats out out the Democratic nominee, according to a statement from the businessman.

"Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable and loyal person with the tools and resources to put together an unparalleled Transition Team, one that will be prepared to take over the White House when we win in November," Trump said in the statement.

Christie, who ran for the GOP nomination and dropped out after a defeat in New Hampshire, was among the first mainstream Republican politicians to endorse Trump. Trump and Christie have said they were longtime friends.

"I am honored by the confidence being place in me by Mr. Trump and look forward to putting together a first-rate team to assemble an administration to best serve the President-elect and the nation," Christie said in a statement.

A Southern California high school student says she was "saddened, disgusted, hurt and embarrassed" when the school yearbook printed the name "Isis Phillips" next to her photo, in which she is wearing a hijab.

The student, who is not being named because her family asked for privacy, took to social media to call out Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga. She first pointed out the error on Twitter, then posted a photo of the yearbook page on Facebook with the following caption:

"I am extremely saddened, disgusted, hurt and embarrassed that the Los Osos High School yearbook was able to get away with this. Apparently I am 'Isis' in the yearbook. The school reached out to me and had the audacity to say that this was a typo. I beg to differ, let's be real."

The photo drew attention from many who criticized the school's mistake. As of Monday, the post had been shared more than 3,500 times.

Chaffey Joint Union High School District Superintendent Mat Holton told the Los Angeles Times the student was misidentified as a peer with the name of Isis. 

Osos High School principal Susan Petrocelli offered an apology on Twitter Saturday, saying the school was taking steps to correct and investigate the misprint.

The Osos High School yearbook also responded on Twitter, admitting fault in the error.

"We should have checked each name carefully in the book and we had no intention to create this misunderstanding," the yearbook staff said.

Attorneys with the Greater Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) have been in contact with the student and her family and were investigating the incident.

"We join with the family in their concern about a possible bias motive for this incident and in the deep concern for their daughter's safety as a result of being falsely labeled as a member of a terrorist group," said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. "No student should have to face the humiliation of being associated with a group as reprehensible as ISIS."

According to CAIR-LA, some 200 yearbooks have been distributed to students at Los Osos High School.

The organization said the student will not likely return to school "until the issue is resolved appropriately."

Holton told the Los Angeles Times yearbook distribution has been halted until the error is fixed.

West Virginia State Police say they've charged a man with attacking a state Senate candidate at a political cookout.

Senior Trooper J.E. Garren said Jonathan Porter is charged with malicious assault, attempted malicious assault and felony destruction of property in the beating on Sunday of Richard Ojeda, who's running as a Democrat for a state Senate seat. 

Garren said Porter asked Ojeda to put a bumper sticker on his truck, and then attacked him with brass knuckles. Garren said police don't know what motivated the attack in Logan County.

He said others at the gathering stopped the beating, called police and tried to prevent Porter from leaving, but he rammed their vehicles with his and fled. Garren said Porter turned himself in several hours later.

Online jail records don't show whether Porter has an attorney.

West Virginia's primary will be held Tuesday.

A Connecticut man was arrested on weapons charges after he was allegedly caught at New York's LaGuardia Airport with a cache of martial arts weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said.

The man was allegedly carrying a dagger, three throwing knives and two throwing stars when TSA agents stopped him at LaGuardia on Saturday, authorities said. 

The TSA workers notified Port Authority Police, which confiscated the blades and arrested the man, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut. 

The man will face weapons possession charges. His name was not released.

This year’s county fair will offer more than just tea at the Mad Hatter’s party.

San Diego’s Alice in Wonderland themed county fair will play host to the 10th Annual San Diego International Beer Festival between June 17 and June 19.

As one of the country’s largest beer festivals, beer-lovers can expect brews from 14 countries, 28 states and the District of Columbia.

Judges already deliberated over the nearly 1,400 entries in late April, the “Best of Show Beer” will be announced at the festival on June 18 at 12:30 p.m.

However, San Diegans do not need to wait to explore the highly ranked local beers and breweries.

In fact, the 2016 “Champion Brewery," which beat out 253 other breweries from around the world, was San Diego’s AleSmith Brewing Company. In total, 41 medals were awarded to San Diego county breweries including Nickel Beer Company, Ballast Point Brewing and many more.

Angry Orchard Cider Company, from New York, was named the 2016 “Champion Meadery/Cidery.”

All of the awarded medals and winners can be found here.

This year's festival plans to feature several new elements including an Educational Beer Stage that will offer blind beer tests, food pairing lessons and other sampling opportunities.

Patrons can also find rare brews tapped throughout the festival, a larger VIP lounge and a beer and cheese pavilion where beer and cheese samples will be provided almost every hour for all festival-goers.

For those interested in attending the festival, there are several things to keep in mind.

The beer festival is within the county fair and will take place over five sessions:

• Session 1: June 17, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.

• Session 2: June 17, 5 p.m.-9 p.m.

• Session 3: June 18, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Session 4: June 18, 4 p.m.-8 p.m.

• Session 5: June 19, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.

There are also unique ticket options for those hoping to attend the festival in addition to the fair.

Visitors can either buying general admission or VIP tickets.

The VIP level includes early access to the VIP lounge, food and beer pairings, unlimited samples for the first two hours of each session and a six-ounce souvenir glass.

However, general admission patrons will still receive festival and fair admission and walk away with a one-ounce souvenir glass.

Beyond the tiers of tickets, festival-goers can also choose to include a fair tripper ticket in their pass. This provides a round-trip fare on the Coaster and Sprinter trains or Breeze buses as well as a shuttle to and from transit stations and the fair.

With nearly 400 brews and 20 hours of beer related activities, even the Mad Hatter's tea pot can't run dry.

The fire chief in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, admitted to starting a brush fire last month, and blamed it on a cigarette, according to court documents.

Ricky Plummer, 59, of Biddeford, was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with one count of arson in an April 15 fire that burned more than 42 acres in Old Orchard Beach's Jones Creek Marsh.

According to the Portland Press Herald, Plummer has served as the fire chief in Old Orchard Beach since 2014. He has also worked at fire departments in Arundel, Biddeford, Standish, North Berwick and Gray, Maine; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Marlborough, Massachusetts; and Cocoa, Florida.

He made his first court appearance on Monday and his bail was set at $10,000 cash. He is not allowed to travel to Old Orchard Beach or possess incendiary devices.

About a dozen investigators from the state fire marshal's office and the forest service seized computers at the Old Orchard Beach fire station on Friday. They also seized Plummer's town-owned car and his cell phone.

Plummer does not yet have an attorney.

Fire investigators said that, contrary to Plummer's account, no evidence of cigarettes was found in the area where the brush fire started. According to court papers, Plummer was spotted on surveillance footage arriving at the scene in his fire department vehicle.

More than 100 firefighters from southern Maine fought the fire. Smoke was visible from as far away as Interstate 295 in Portland. No one was injured.