Firefighter blamed for blaze
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Flagstaff, Ariz.
Prosecutors this week accused a part-time firefighter of setting an Arizona wildfire in hopes of getting hired to help put it out. Leonard Gregg, 29, was arrested on charges he set two fires on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, where he lived. One quickly went out, but the other spread and eventually merged with another blaze to form the largest wildfire in Arizona history. Tens of thousands of people have had to evacuate. More than 400 homes have been destroyed as the flames have consumed an area larger than Los Angeles. At his first court appearance, Gregg asked the judge, “Can I say I’m sorry for what I did?”
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