There's a good chance they will be. Emergency services generally don't bill for things like car wrecks, etc., but it's fairly common to bill people for stuff like the guys that climb part way up buildings and get stuck.
With this thing running over a hundred miles and planes in pursuit and multiple jurisdictions involved, they may get a bill for over a hundred K.
I know...hubby’s retired IAFF. He says people could be billed after a certain number of false alarms. I hope any $$ these clowns make on this gets fined right back out. Y’all risk enough for the real stuff..the faked stuff should bite back hard.