Friday, February 29, 2008

News: Another Delay, Thirtymile fire trial

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A federal judge has granted another delay in the trial of a former Forest Service crew boss charged after a wildfire killed four firefighters in 2001.

U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle granted the motion Friday to start the trial May 5, rather than April 14 for 47-year-old Ellreese Daniels. He is charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and seven counts of making false statements to investigators.

Four firefighters from central Washington were killed in the July 2001 wildfire in the Okanogan National Forest in north-central Washington state.

Van Sickle says he will decide later whether jurors will be allowed to visit the site of the fatal wildfire.

Source: Wildfires Today

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