Only you and your young child can prevent forest fires! Please keeps matches lighters and other implements used to start fires away from children! Also remember that childproof in no way means a child cannot find a way to use the lighter!
One must feel for the parents, but in the same extent What response is in the best interest of the state? Maybe this action (unless proven to be a child with a criminal record)is best left as a learning experience for ALL families that their children MUST be taught and watched over properly. A 10 year old being watched by a parent is NOT playing with matches...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 — A 10-year-old boy admitted that he accidentally started one of the largest of last week’s Southern California wildfires while playing with matches, enforcement officials say.
The blaze, the Buckweed fire, started in the early afternoon of Oct. 21, in Agua Dulce, a rural community in the northern part of Los Angeles County. Fanned by high winds and hot, dry weather, it spread quickly, driving 15,000 people from their homes, destroying 21 houses and 22 other buildings, injuring three people and blackening more than 38,000 acres.
Investigators immediately began tracing the cause of the fire, and on Oct. 22 arson investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department talked with the suspect, whose name has not been released, a department spokesman, Steve Whitmore, said Wednesday. “It became known to them that they needed to speak with this young boy,” Mr. Whitmore said. “He acknowledged that he was playing with matches and accidentally, his words, set the fire.”
Mr. Whitmore would not discuss the case further before evidence was presented to the county district attorney’s office.
The youth was left in the custody of his parents, awaiting word on whether he would be prosecuted. If so, the case would be heard in the county’s juvenile justice system, said Sandi Gibbons, the public information officer for the district attorney’s office.
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