Sadie Renee Johnson Starts Reservation Fire To Help Bored Firefighters

BEND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department said Friday an Oregon woman pleaded guilty in May to starting a wildfire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation last year because her firefighter friends were bored and needed work.

The U.S. attorney's office in Portland says 23-year-old Sadie Renee Johnson of Warm Springs tossed a small firework from a car in July 2013 into the roadside brush. The fire spread to about 80 square miles — 51,000 acres — and cost nearly $8 million to fight.

Investigators said she posted a Facebook question two days later: "like my fire?"

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