Did he write a check?
I wonder if they are going to garnish his wages for a lifetime? How come the other people that do this kind of stuff don't have to pay or pay as much? Is it cause he's 26 and he has longer to live? :) Time for this guy to go work in the fields for extra money, he's gonna have to have several jobs "americans don't want to do" to pay back that much $$.
So what would the government have paid his family if he had died from exposure??????
Good luck collecting on that one...
How much you wanna bet he declares bankruptcy next week?
whatever happened to the hunter in san diego county in the fall of 2003 that set fire to the cleveland national forest in order to be rescued?
it came down from the mountains into san diego and jumped the i-15. also killed several people.
it burned hundreds of thousands of acres. i left the county because i couldn't breathe.
And how much did they fine the forest service employee who intentionally started the forest fire in Colorado?
Not his fault, the beer made him sleepy.
ludicrous
It could have been me, but I decided to endure the cold. Could not find my way back to my campsite after dark during a storm in Northern California back in 1987 while hunting. Spent a cold night jogging in place under a tree. All I had to keep warm was a plastic trash bag. Oh yeah, and the memory of the mountain lion I saw earlier helped me stay awake.
It takes three things to make a fire: fuel, air, and a source of ignition. Air we can't do anything about. Ignitions happen naturally. So what do we do about the fuel?
Nothing.
It makes NO sense to label the source of an ignition in a forest fire as the "cause" of the destruction when frequent fires through dispersed fuels is the best way to preclude a holocaust. The reality is that the owner of excessive fuels is the real perpetrator for a disaster. So, why don't we go after that individual?
Government is the largest fuel owner around.