EUGENE, Ore. — The state is suing a man for the $14,000 it cost to put out a fire ignited by lit fireworks thrown from a car window in 2008.
The Eugene Register Guard reports (http://bit.ly/1HipOJN) Skylar Adair was convicted of noncriminal violation of fire prevention laws and fined $183 in 2008. Oregon’s Department of Forestry has been trying to get Adair to pay the full cost of fighting the fire, but has received $220 so far.
Adair was a minor at the time of the Horton Who fire, which burned 1.6 acres in western Oregon. His mother is also named in the lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Neither could be reached for comment.
Forestry department spokesman Rod Nichols said pending litigation prevents the agency from releasing the Horton Who fire investigation report.
