Three men in Washington have been arrested and charged with arson for setting unauthorized backfires last month.
The Spokesman-Review reported that firefighters told two of the men not to light the fire. They did anyway and the fire damaged private and federal property.
In another similar incident, a third man lit a fire in July that “went the wrong way” and nearly trapped firefighters in a canyon, who called law enforcement after escaping the near-entrapment.
A fourth person is being investigated for arson-related charges.
