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I never found out what happened to the woman. Supposedly, she'd run out of gas and been stranded in the middle of nowhwere for a couple of days. A news helicopter covering the Rodeo fire flew around, so she set a signal fire which became the Chediski fire.

Update: The U.S. Attorney declined to prosecute her in June 2002 for starting the Chediski Fire, citing "absence of malicious intent." As of June 2005 "...the White Mountain Apache Tribe is preparing to try the woman who started the Chediski Fire [in a civil suit]."

Details of the civil suit can be read here .
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