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A former college professor from the South Bay was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in federal prison for setting a series of fires in summer 2021.

SELAH, Wash. - The Selah Fire Department is taking fighting fires to new heights. A new firetruck will allow crews to attack flames from 78-feet in the air.

SELAH, Wash. - The Selah Fire Department is taking fighting fires to new heights. A new firetruck will allow crews to attack flames from 78-feet in the air.

(KRON) — A former Bay Area university professor admitted to setting arson blazes around firefighters who were battling the Dixie Fire, the largest single wildfire in California’s history. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty on Thursday to three counts of arson on federal property. He faces up to 20 years in prison […]

U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert Thursday announced Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty today to three counts of arson on federal property.

A criminal justice professor who has worked at various California colleges pleaded guilty Thursday after being charged with setting a series of blazes near the massive Dixie Fire in 2021. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of arson to federal property in Sacramento federal court before U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta.

A former criminal justice professor pleaded guilty Thursday to setting three blazes during the 2021 Dixie Fire, which burned nearly a million acres.

A criminal justice professor who has worked at various California colleges pleaded guilty Thursday after being charged with setting a series of blazes near the massive Dixie Fire in 2021. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of arson to federal property in Sacramento federal court before U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta.

Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty to three arson counts in connection to fires in the Shasta National Forest and near the Dixie Fire in the Lassen National Forest, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

“It appeared that Maynard was in the midst of an arson-setting spree.”