Forest Service: Arson Caused Giant LA Wildfire

[villager]

Source: AP

US Forest Service: Arson caused giant LA wildfire


LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Forest Service says arson is the cause of the wildfire north of Los Angeles that killed two firefighters. Deputies have launched a homicide investigation. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is looking for the person who set the fire that's destroyed more than five dozen homes and burned 226 square miles.

The two firefighters died Sunday when their truck careened off a steep mountain road.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wildfires

[Oldtimeralso]

1. I Hope The Perp Is Found And Held Responsible For The Deaths n/t

[MadMaddie]

2. That's a federal crime

I hope they do catch them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law!

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. If this is true, the arsonist is a murderer

according to the California Penal Code, Section 189:

All murder . . . which is committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, carjacking, robbery, burglary, mayhem, kidnapping, train wrecking, or . . . is murder of the first degree.

[XemaSab]

4. Not cool

Not cool at all.