The Upper Swee****er contained native rainbows until October 2003,
when a lost and inexperienced hunter set a signal fire that mushroomed
into the largest wildfire in California history.

So which is more important a few fish or a human being?

The inferno burned 422 square miles from the pine forests of Julian to
the coastal sage scrub at Miramar. It killed 15 people, destroyed more
than 2,200 homes and devastated much of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

The blaze was so intense that portions of narrow, knee-deep waterways
such as the Upper Swee****er evaporated. Runoff from rainfall in the
weeks after the fire contaminated the streams with carbon-laden ash,
which suffocated fish.

I wonder what he's doing now. Or did he become one of the 15 he
killed?

THe fires would not have been so devastating had the natives been
allowed to manage the environment. Or do devastating fires just
happen? Was it just one of those things that a lost and lonely soul
for the first time in the history of that part of North America lit a
fire?

Not that I hope he survived of course.

Just curious.