D.C. man indicted in Ham Lake fire

Today I read D.C. man indicted in Ham Lake fire by Larry Oakes. It was about the wildfires in Northern Minnesota last year started on May 5, 20o7. Stephen George Posniak was indicted on Tuesday for caussing one of Minnesota's wrost wildfires. It has been said that Posniak failed to fully extunguish his campfire at his campsite before leaving. With the dry, hot conditions Northern Minnesota was experiencing, failing to put out his fire was very dangerous. As we know, his failure to extiguish the fire caused a huge wildfire. The fires destroyed nearly 140 houses, cabins, and other stuctures before finally being contained and put out but cooler, wet weather and the work of more than 1,000 firefighters. The three-page indictment says, "in truth and in fact, as the defendant knew, he camped overnight on Ham Lake on the evening of May 4, 2007, and he started a paper trash fire at his Ham Lake campsite on the morning of May 5, 2007, that spread to nearby [forest]." Posniak knew what he was doing, and knew he should've put the fire out.