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Man who started fire which killed five firemen gets death penalty.

Manic Moran · 2009-06-05 21:45:24

In the US, of course. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/05/california.arson.death.penalty/index.html I remember this fire, Cerda's 90% burns got a lot of coverage on the news. Hell of a way to go. Forest Service equipment is very good, and they even have some stuff which is designed to allow them to survive if they do get…

05-06-2009 9:45pm

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In the US, of course.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/05/california.arson.death.penalty/index.html

California man convicted of the 2006 arson murders of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters was sentenced to death Friday.

Firefighters Mark Loutzenhiser, 44; Jess McLean, 27; Jason McKay, 27; and Daniel Hoover-Najera, 20, died October 26, 2006, during the Esperanza fire outside Los Angeles. Fueled by Santa Ana winds, the wildfire enveloped their engine.

The fifth firefighter, Pablo Cerda, 23, died October 31, 2006, at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he had been taken after suffering burns over 90 percent of his body.

Days before being charged in Esperanza fire, Oyler had been arrested and charged with two counts of arson in a June 2006 fire in the Banning Pass area.

The 41,173-acre Esperanza fire destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings, mainly in the Twin Pines and Poppet Flats areas, which had been under mandatory evacuations.

The firefighters died trying to protect a partially built house in Twin Pines, a rural mountain community.

I remember this fire, Cerda's 90% burns got a lot of coverage on the news. Hell of a way to go. Forest Service equipment is very good, and they even have some stuff which is designed to allow them to survive if they do get completely surrounded by the fire, but this fire was just too big. Note that unlike most death penalty cases, there was no particular intent to kill anyone, it's more a case of attempting to give extra 'protections' to public servants.

NTM

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