On 8 June 2011, fire burned twenty to thirty dunums (4 dunums equal about 1 acre) of a fifty dunum plot of land owned by five different  Palestinian families,  who grew fruit trees and other garden produce on it.  One of the property owners reported to CPTers Paulette Schroeder, Jessie Smith, Laurens van Esch, and Esther Mae Hinshaw that the fire was set by settlers who live in a Kiryat Arba settlement outpost adjacent to the burned trees and field.  When the CPTers arrived on the scene, an Israeli fire truck was spraying water on the surrounding land.  The property owner reported that a Palestinian fire truck had put out the fire.  One of the owners, who has a shop near the CPT apartment, had alerted the CPTers.