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    BIA = Bureau of Indian Affairs

    Contract fire fighters get payed to fight fires on a fire by fire basis. So they only get paid when there is a fire. Many of these people have other jobs, but I supose some of them depend on fires for income.

    He was a member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, where the fire was started.

    As a side note when the fire was first noticed the Show Low Fire department, the only municiple dept. in the area, turned out to fight it but were denied access at first by the tribe because they didn’t want to have to pay them for working on a fire on reservation land. By the way, the White Mountain Apache Reservation WAS some of the most beautiful land in Arizona. (This may have brought out the other discution I started:) )


  • Ha, so how did they know it was that particular guy? By tracing the evidence? Or did somebody rat him out?

    “By the way, the White Mountain Apache Reservation WAS some of the most beautiful land in Arizona. (This may have brought out the other discution I started:) )”

    Being to Arizona only once, you might be right about that. But here in California, their land isn’t exactly what you call a “landscape view.” Or course, there have been recent allegations that the Natives themselves actually commit a lot to the land’s waste and pollution, which is partly the reason why it’s so despoiled. However, I can neither confirm nor deny that.

  • '19 Moderator

    I think it was a little of both. He actualy started two fires but the first on was put out before it got over an acre.


  • @dezrtfish:

    I think it was a little of both. He actualy started two fires but the first on was put out before it got over an acre.

    oh that hurts. my goodness. How did he ever not get killed by a piece of rope, or other shiny object when he was 12?
    how DUMB can a person be?
    FinsterniS - here is your argument against evolution.


  • Hahaha, good one CC.
    Don’t worry, at least this makes me looks my arguments against capitalism look good. 8)

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