EXCLUSIVE: A wildfire that torched some 1,300 acres of national parkland in Ohio was the handiwork of a emergency responder who did it to keep local firefighters from getting bored, according to a criminal complaint first obtained by The Daily Beast.
James A. Bartels, a now-former 911 dispatcher for the Greenfield Township Volunteer Fire Department, is charged with “timber set afire,” the federal justice system’s version of arson. Bartels, 50, set at least 24 fires in the Wayne National Forest over several months, the complaint alleges.
, first aroused suspicion last April, when he “discovered an unreported fire” at around 12:30 a.m., states the complaint, which was unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. “On November 8, 2022, within days of Bartels’ resignation from Gallia County 911 dispatch, at least 17 fires were lit,” the complaint goes on.
“During the interview, Bartels admitted to lighting multiple fires on Wayne National Forest with a lighter,” it states. “Bartels said he started the fires to give the boys something to do and to distract himself from depression.”
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