No punishment inflicted on this dumb kid would ever be commensurate to the damage done by this fire, because it's not ALL his fault.  

The Gorge fire should be a wakeup call for fire policy makers and forest managers. There's incompetence among those folks, even malfeasance. Climate change deniers have a lot to answer for too.

We are in a lot of trouble if the only thing that stands between a long, hot summer and a terrible fire is one teenager's impulse control!