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The young boy who started one of the worst of Southern California's wildfires last month will not be criminally charged, the LAPD said. The 10-year-old boy had admitted to police that he had started the fire accidentally while playing with matches Oct. 21. Had he been charged with arson, he could have been made a ward of the state under California law. The evidence presented by Sheriff's investigators was that the fire was caused by the 10-year-old boy playing with matches and accidentally igniting the brush. There is no evidence of intent on the part of the minor. The 10-year-old sparked the Buckweed fire in Los Angeles County, which destroyed 21 homes and injured at least three people. The fires in southern California toward the end of October incinerated more than 800 square miles — an area 40 times as large as Manhattan — and destroyed some 2,100 homes.
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