Businessman Tarek M Al Shawaf May Be On 25 Million Hook For 2013 Wildfire
That wildfire was severe enough to completely destroy more than 20 buildings in its wake and for more than 5,000 people to have to evacuate. It was also severe enough to get its own name, when authorities began calling it the “Mountain fire.” And according to the government, the Mountain fire started on Al-Shawaf’s 20-acre property in Riverside County, where they say they have traced the fire back to a faulty electrical box that sparked up and ignited what quickly spread into the disastrous inferno....