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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 10, 2008

Fighting the Fire Starters

Focus Column - By Peter A. Lynch and David Brisco - Officials investigating who may be responsible for the wildfires that enveloped Southern California should review the legal process carefully in order to bring arsonists to justice.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Peter A. Lynch
and David Brisco

This article appears on Page 7

      On Oct. 21, 2007, media outlets began reporting on the Southern California wildfires. Television viewers were transfixed as the fires roared through canyons and across fields, incinerating everything in their path for days. The rapid response of the emergency personnel was heroic in battling those fires. Now that those fires are contained, an...

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