What goal will that accomplish?

mistake

I feel sorry for him and I have a level of respect for him for owning up to his mistake. Someone who has enough decency in them own up to creating the disaster has to be feeling a great deal of pain over the loss of life and property they've caused. It was foolish, and it had horrible consequences, but it was an accident.

I have family there, and I was scared to to death when I couldn't get in touch with them. So, it's not as easy for me to feel compassion for this man as I usual.. Yet I still do.

Tell me how you really feel.

I'm kind of familiar with wildfires. They're not like a house fire where you can trace it back to a specific point of origin, rather than a general one. The odds of them tracing them back to his trash can, in those winds, were pretty much nil.

It's like having a constant stress over your head. Not a pleasant experience in any way.

The odd thing is they don't usually have such fires there this early in the season.

Iced down, maybe, but shackled? Never!

I tip my hat to you, as you obviously have never done anything stupid in your life.

It must be an interesting feeling.

Negligence is a civil tort.

There are very few criminal statutes where the mens reus is mere negligence. "Criminal Negligence" typically involves wanton or reckless behavior.

I understand negligence well enough to have aced Torts I.

There is nothing the criminal justice system has to offer this guy than what he's already going through, I'd bet.