Four men who admitted accidentally setting a wildfire that burned for more than a month on the West Brow of Lookout Mountain have been fined $210 each, according to a representative for the National Park Service.
The four men, whose names have not been released, have already paid the fines, according to Todd Roeder, chief ranger for the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park. They were charged with camping outside of a designated area and lighting a fire outside a designated area, he said.
Three of the men, who are in their 20s, are from Tennessee and one is from Indiana, Roeder said.
The park service has not decided whether to sue the men for damages to recover the cost of fighting the fire, he said.
“While they didn’t do anything malicious, they were not being smart,” Roeder said. “They built a fire in a drought area.”