Prosecutors say motive was to provide more work for firefighters
judge on Saturday ordered the detention of a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire in the Valparaiso region.The court in Valparaiso ruled the two men, who were arrested on Friday, could be held for 180 days while they are investigated.
The regional prosecutor for Valparaiso, Claudia Perivancich, said investigators have evidence the two men agreed “in advance to carry out conduct of this type when the weather conditions were adequate”. The commander of the Valparaiso Fire Department, Vicente Maggiolo, said: “We are very dismayed by the situation”.
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