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The U.S. Forest Service has said it will charge a Washington state teenager Teenager
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 for the cost of fighting a $10 million wildfire that burned 16,000 acres. The 18-year-old was cited for operating an off-road vehicle off-road vehicle off nvĂ©hicule m tout-terrain  without a spark arrester spark arrester
n.
1. A device designed to keep sparks from escaping, as at a chimney opening.

2. A device used to control electric sparking at a point where a circuit is made or broken.
, Forests & People magazine said. The Forest Service, required by law to try to recover firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires."
2.
 costs, says it usually works with the person's insurance company on a settlement. "It's not something we take pleasure in," Forests & People quoted a national forests spokesperson as saying. "We understand a lot of these people don't go out to start a fire."
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Title Annotation:News from the world of Trees; wildfire fighting cost
Publication:American Forests
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 22, 2005
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