As I recall, not usual with this amount of military activity over europe, what is usual is top 30-40 aircraft during peaks. Again, as I recall. I could be wrong…
CAL Fires and new "smart" meters theory:
The new "smart meters" are plugged to prevent tampering, which means it's not really open source what they contain in terms of technology.
Looking at the cal fire pics it seems like whole houses burned into disintegration on the spot. What is an electric oven? Conducting wires designed to have resistance to current flow to thereby create heat. It would absolutely be possible to make all the electrical wiring in a house to act as an oven heating element. It's just a matter of putting high enough currents through the wires. The smart meters is connected to all wiring in any specific house, and could activate this function by triggering through the radio link already in place.
Just a thought that someone else must have had already…