District Attorney: Tea Fire Investigation Is Ongoing

All this about the recent Tea fire & nothing on the 16 yr. old suspect in custody for the Gap fire. What gives? :) henry

And when they are "thorough" with their investigation, then what?

What a disgrace - if this town had a decent newspaper (instead of McCaw's pathetic excuse for one, it would have sued to obtain this information long ago and gotten it. The public has a right to this information.
One senses the DA is afraid the public will resort to frontier justice - which says a lot about the DA and this town.

I'm not really concerned. I'm all for fire safety, and I feel terrible for all of the victims. I'm not out for the heads of the people are responsible, though.

I mean, I really wish they had done a better job putting out their bon fire, but it was the next day, almost 24 hours later when the winds kicked up. As far as being negligent, it just isn't there. There was no chance of their bon fire kicking up the night before or the next day, it was probably the furthest thing from their mind. This was just a fluke situation.

If you are going to have a bonfire you should know the procedures for safety. I don't want the heads of those kids either, but they should have to pay for their irresponsibility, otherwise they will learn the lesson that because they are privileged they can get away with anything. If these kids were Latino having a bonfire on someone's private property, they would be in jail with headlines reading "DA Prosecutes Tea Fire Gangsters!"

They should at the very least have a long parole, with community service, maybe cleaning up the houses they burned down. People who drunk drive or use their cell phones while driving do not set out to hurt anyone either, they just do.

I do want the heads of these criminally negligent idiots. They should never have had a bonfire in FIRE SEASON. If you don't hold them criminally or fiscally responsible for their actions, what will prevent the next disaster? I'm guessing the wannabe nice guys were not much touched by the fire. Like many others, I was affected---although I am glad to be alive, everything I owned and cherished is gone forever. I spend most of my time dealing with insurance, finding housing, locating copies of things, etc., and grieving. These idiots destroyed native wildlife---literally burned them alive. We are diminished by their loss. They were struggling to survive the human-induced degradation of their habitat even before this. I'm tired of everyone enabling selfish irresponsible behavior. We are all interconnected, and we can't afford to let people get away with wanton carelessness that destroys so many others.

My deep sympathy goes out to anonymous 2008 for his loss, and I associate fully with his grief for the unspeakable wildlife carnage caused by this entirely preventable and murderous fire. Wildlife takes time to recover, if ever, and these irresponsible people by their actions have shamefully caused the carnage, interrupted the lives, the food supply, and the natural habitats of hundreds of vulnerable and innocent creatures. For this crime against nature they will clearly have years to reflect and repent.

On second thought, I agree with cenglish10 and the community service/cleaning up the houses comment. That's reasonable. I still think it's a bit much to put them in jail for a long period of time or charge them an exorbitant fine considering the lack of negligence. It's important to put fires out, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they had a fairly good "pit" to hold the contents, and I would imagine that the coals were blown out of the pit by the 50-70+ mph winds (almost 24 hours later..). Ya, it's fire season, but those conditions are really a rare bird occurrence.