Boy Scouts blamed for 14,000-acre blaze

THE Boy Scouts of America have been slapped with two lawsuits demanding the organisation cover the $14 million (€11.25m) it cost to fight a June 2002 blaze it claims scouts started in Wyoming.

Boy Scouts blamed for 14,000-acre blaze

For two years, Utah residents have wondered who started the wildfire that destroyed 14,208 acres of alpine forest and pristine meadows in the Uinta Mountains, near the Wyoming border. The government’s answer has come.

Government and State officials insist that the litigation was brought only as a last resort, to ensure that taxpayers were not stuck with the bill.

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