Wildfires, saving injured hiker, finding lost child: Latest DEC Forest Ranger action Updated 3:06 PM; State Forest Rangers have kept busy recently dealing with wild flowers, rescuing an injured hiker and finding a lost child. The following incidents took place between April 19-24. All information below was supplied by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Town of Lysander. Onondaga County Illegal Fires: “On April 19 at 6:30 p.m., a Forest Ranger received a call from Onondaga County 911 Dispatch about a woman setting fires in several parking lots at the Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The Phoenix Fire Department responded and extinguished the fires. Ranger Chappell and Ranger Lieutenant Jackson also responded to the site to conduct a preliminary investigation and found the remnants of bonfires in the parking lots. the Ranger interviewed witnesses and identified a possible subject. The following day, the Ranger , along with an Environmental Conservation Police Officer, attempted to locate the suspect at home and were advised by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office that its Officers had caught the subject back at the WMA tending another fire. The Ranger and the ECO responded and the individual was issued several tickets for a variety of DEC violations, including leaving a fire unattended, depositing trash on a WMA, and unlawful open burning.”