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"The federal safety net is no longer there," Flynn said in the half-hour Ames Courtroom talk, which was sponsored by the student-run Harvard Law School Forum. "There are large holes in that net that people are falling through."
The men, who were on a hiking trip in the Cascade Mountains near Chelan, Wa., reportedly tried to dispose of toilet paper by burning it in the wooded area on June 27. Because of the dry spell plaguing the West coast this summer, the men's action ignited a blaze...
The hikers reportedly told fire investigators on the scene that they had read experienced woodsmen always burned their toilet tissue. "It wasn't the thing to do," Ames said.
The fire, which was contained June 30, might have been extinguished more quickly if it had started in a more accessible location. Ames said the Forest Service could not get power equipment like bulldozers into the heavily wooded area and had to bring firefighters in by helicopter and boat.
The hikers apparently tried to extinguish the fire themselves before being boated to safety across Lake Chelan, where a Forest Service official in a guardhouse had spotted the smoke. "I imagine it was tense for [the hikers], but they probably didn't have much of a chance," Ames said.