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Four recent graduates of the Medical School have admitted to accidentally starting a 500-acre forest fire in a wilderness area northeast of Seattle in late June...
...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 that took three days and about $500,000 to contain, said Wenahatchee National Forest spokeswoman Marti J. Ames...
...Forest Service is not releasing the names of the four until it decides whether to take civil action against them. The man allegedly responsible for igniting the blaze has been fined $100, the customary amount levied for starting a fire without a permit, said Benjamin Hull, a special agent with the Forest Service...
...remains unclear whether the Forest Service will ask the hiker to reimburse the government the $500,000 it took to put out the fire and the cost of damage to the forest...
...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...