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  • Firefighter charged in 5 blazes near San Diego

    09/02/2002 7:35:13 AM PDT · by madfly · 28 replies · 336+ views
    The Arizona Republic ^ | Aug. 29, 2002 | Seth Hettena, AP
    SAN DIEGO - A 19-year-old firefighter with the California Conservation Corps has been charged with starting five fires that destroyed two homes and prompted 200 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. Jonathan Patrick Klausen, a firefighter specialist with the corps, which enlists young people to fight fires and perform other environmental work, was arrested Tuesday night on five counts of arson.He was being held Wednesday on $250,000 bond. The fires were set early Tuesday near Julian, a town about 40 miles northeast of San Diego that had fought off a 62,000-acre wildfire less than a month ago. The largest arson-caused...