Beauty Destroyed

[Hillbillygirl]

Such a beautiful peaceful place just a few miles north of us. Has some wonderful cliffs, a sand beach, and surrounded by bush everywhere.........

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7571385674_5ca544d156_b.jpg

.....too bad "THIS" is just around the bend off the right side of the first pic. What you are seeing is where some young people deliberately set a fire ablaze and endangered 1,000's of lives and destroyed approx. 5,000 acres of wilderness/wildlife. This is the exact place this wildfire started. (if you look closely above the rock in centre of pic, you will see the orange tape marking the crime scene).

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8151/7571402110_245b606679_b.jpg

[Runmonty]

Having previously lived in a bushfire (wildffire) region and having seen the damage they cause, it is tragic to see this .

Are the penalties in Canada very tough for deliberately lighting wildfires? Over here penalities have recently been increased (up to life imprisonment in some cases for arson - or even 20 years for "Intending to cause or recklessly indifferent as to causing a bushfire")

[edG]

I used to live in Thunder Bay and travelled the entire northwest for work - saw way to much of this.

[asnow]

What a shame. It's bad enough having fires from lightning or people just being careless. It's unbelievable that people would actually deliberately set a fire. I hope our laws are tough on those that would do this.