Man Pleads No Contest to Starting Wildfire
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A man has pleaded no contest to a federal misdemeanor for starting a fire in the Mendocino National Forest a year ago that burned 6,058 acres and cost &#36;33 million to suppress.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for five men accused of starting a massive wildfire at Malibu State Park that destroyed more than 50 homes in November, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Thursday.
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By Pat Reavy Deseret Morning News  The Sandy Fire Department is the latest to urge residents to take precautions against what could potentially be a long and dangerous wildfire season -- especially those who live along the Dimple Dell gully.
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STOWE, Vt. - A former volunteer firefighter is facing charges that he made a series of false 911 calls so he could watch fire engines race toward fabricated emergencies.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire killed 100 people will plead no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter, and only one will have to serve prison time, their attorney said Wednesday. Victims' relatives were outraged.
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Desert winds and blistering heat Wednesday challenged firefighters battling a 37,000-acre wildfire that destroyed buildings and forced hundreds of people to leave but spared historic structures in a town developed decades ago as a movie set for Westerns.
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A homeless man arrested in the city's biggest fire in a decade will not be sent to prison. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Leszek Kuczera admitted to no crime in the 10-alarm blaze at a historic warehouse complex in Brooklyn. He will go to an alcohol-treatment program for about eight months.
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A 14-year-old boy who admitted setting his friend on fire did not intend to do it, a jury decides.
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PHOENIX - The former commander of an elite wildland firefighting team who admitted setting two forest fires was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.
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A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a man who allegedly started the largest wildfire in California history.
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By Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 20--A firefighter works to put out a grass fire off Woodruff Lane near Matthews Lane in Yuba County on Monday.
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Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "We can never have enough of nature." His philosophy of Transcendentalism allowed him to live life without resignation as he declared he would accept "the whole and genuine meanness" of living. The wildfires that currently afflict Southern California residents who may have embraced the same philosophy are perhaps an unforeseen "meanness" that is now a fact of life in the woods. Wired's How To Wiki gives a few pointers about preparing for and surviving the now-notorious wildfire season.
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Wildfires spread to threaten new areas   Up to 950,000 people already evacuatedOfficials hope winds will aid firefighters todayHelp given by Mexico, state prisoners
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By EUGENE TONG  Firefighters trying to show homeowners the do's and dont's of brush-fire protection could simply point to Rodney Kemerer's backyard in Benedict Canyon.
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A woman pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges that she kidnapped an infant during a 1997 house fire and raised the girl as her own for six years.
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Norris Edgecombe doesn't have a fireplace in his Dorchester home, but he builds 10 to 20 roaring fires a night.
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Ty Pennington, host of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," pleaded no contest Friday in a misdemeanor drunken driving case.