A 29-year-old man faces up to six months in jail after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of leaving a fire unattended in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico in April. Rodrigo Ulloa-Esquivel of El Paso admitted that he lit toilet paper on fire after relieving himself. He explained that he did not want to leave litter behind. The Last Chance fire burned 53,342 acres.

Fires started by campers burning toilet paper is not as uncommon as you may think. I recall one or possibly two fires that were started this way by volunteers in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in California during the annual Bighorn Sheep Count.