Companies ordered to pay $36 million for starting fire
A federal jury ordered two construction companies to pay $36 million to the federal government for starting the 18,000-acre Copper fire on the Angeles National Forest near Santa Clarita, California in 2002.
It is the largest jury award ever ordered for a fire cost-recovery case and is the first time a jury has awarded damages for environmental damages caused by a fire.
The blaze started from metal sparks from an electric grinder where four water reservoirs were being built by CB&I Constructors and the now-defunct Merco Construction Engineers.
Studying the effects of the Station fire
The New York Times has an interesting article about how -ologists are determining the effects of the huge fire near Los Angeles on organisms, including fish. And yes, apparently there ARE fish in the Angeles National Forest. Who KNEW?
Montana weather douses wildfire season
The Great Falls Tribune sums up the wildfire season in Montana that never really started, HERE.
Google Wave
Anyone have a Google Wave invitation they can send to us? We would like to evaluate it as something that might be useful on Wildfire Today.
