Arson

Earlier this week, we covered the case of US Forest Service firefighter Daniel Mariano Madrigal, who was charged in state court with arson for setting a wildland fire on July 25, 2010. Madrigal’s attorney, Salvador Silva, admitted that his client ...

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Today’s burning question: I’m a wildland firefighter and I accidentally started a fire when the cigarette I was smoking burned me and I tossed it. Can I be charged with arson? Firefighter Daniel Mariano Madrigal goes on trial today in ...

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A volunteer firefighter in Osage County, Oklahoma has been charged with setting an August 3, 2011 fire that damaged several structures and consumed 300 acres. What has investigators puzzled was the discovery of human remains inside a school bus that ...

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Four Tennessee volunteer firefighters have been charged with arson in connection with a series of recent fires, including one that destroyed a fire station. The suspects are all members of the Houston County Fire Department, and according to local officials ...

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A Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania volunteer firefighter was sentenced yesterday to 1 ½ to 3 years in prison for setting a fire last August. Brandon Cooper, 19, was with the Arnold Volunteer Fire Department when he set a fire in a ...

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A wildland firefighter with the Oklahoma Forestry Services has been arrested and charged in conjunction with up to 60 fires set over the past two years.  Mike Malenski, 38, has been employed by OFS for the past 7 years. He has ...

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The verdict is in, in the arson and murder case against 27 year old Christopher Benitez, accused of setting the fire that claimed the life of Phoenix firefighter Brett Tarver in March 2001.

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Severely injured firefighter from Warrior Run Area Fire Department in Pennsylvania received a $10 million verdict last Friday against the arsonist who set the fire.

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A Wichita firefighter has been terminated for setting a small fire in the fire station that he intended as a practical joke. Jarrod Womack has been terminated for the January 12, 2011 prank. Five other firefighters also received discipline ranging ...

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A Colorado homeowner who was charged and convicted of arson has filed a notice of intent to sue the fire departments that fought the fire he set. Termed the Reservoir Road fire, the fire in Loveland, Colorado began September 12, ...

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A combination fire department in Louisiana has filed suit against one of its former call firefighters who set fire to a building owned by the department. The Little Caillou Fire Department filed suit in state court against Jesse Patrick Marcel, ...

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A third volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in Cleburne County, Alabama, following the arrests of two firefighters for arson earlier this month. Adrian Campbell, 19, was arrested on January 21, 2011 for setting a fire vacant home on ...

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Apopka firefighter Jason Leblanc, 44, has resigned following the disclosure that he set another firefighter, 25-year-old Jack Shumate, on fire at a holiday party on December 18, 2010. Shumate sustained second degree burns and has not returned to work since ...

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A volunteer firefighter in Lafayette, Georgia has been arrested and charged with one count of arson. However, Marvin Chase, 32, is a suspect in over 20 fires and is being referred to as a serial arsonist. According to one news report he admitted ...

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