A Sage man who turned up at a Temecula Red Cross evacuation shelter in tears during a fast-moving wildland fire last year has been sentenced to prison for interfering with firefighting efforts.
, was sentenced last week for assaulting a firefighter with his vehicle and interfering with a firefighter during last summer's massive Buck Fire incident in Aguanga, according to a report from Cal Fire/Riverside County spokeswoman Jody Hagemann.
Good was sentenced to four years and eight months in state prison for his crimes, according to Hagemann's report.
O He told a volunteer there that he had lost his trailer home in the Buck blaze.
Lynda Shoemaker, a Red Cross volunteer who was managing the center that night, said Good told her he was trying to douse flames when his dogs escaped and went missing.
The swift-moving Buck Fire was r The blaze burned more than 1,800 acres, forced multiple evacuations and damaged three structures, Hagemann said.
An inmate firefighter reportedly died after battling the blaze.
The fire took four days to contain. It was later determined the blaze was sparked by lightning.
Did the guy try to run down the firefighter? Was it that the firefighter tried to block him from leaving or entering his property while he was either looking for his dogs or heading to the shelter? C'mon... can't you expound a little more on the incident that cost this guy almost 5 years of his life in prison? It seems that more and more there are people getting in trouble for encounters with people working for the state. Maybe some of us would like to know just what we are and are not allowed to do when one of those people in an official capacity are in our space. With the information provided, I find it disturbing that a distraught human being, during the onslaught of a fire that destroys his home, his loved companions (dogs) escaping and could (at the time) be in danger because of the fire, is charged and convicted and sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Is there no understanding of the trauma a human being may be suffering in these situations? Is there no compassion for anyone other than a state worker?
It doesn't matter how distraught he was. There's no excuse for intentionally running over a fire fighter. Just Google his name, and you'll find more details.
He also has a history of violent behavior.