Man set off Arizona wildfire to get work

  • 01/07/2002

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

A 29-year-old contract firefighter who was charged on Sunday with setting one of the major Arizona wildfires, allegedly started the blaze because he wanted some seasonal work, prosecutors said. Leonard Gregg, who works as a seasonal fire crew member for the federal bureau of Indian affairs, allegedly set two fires, one of which grew into the huge Rodeo fire that merged with another blaze and charred an area larger than New York City.