Regardless of what usually happens, there have been instances where someone who was negligent or started a fire for fun, was blamed for starting something that

Regardless of what usually happens, there have been instances where someone who was negligent or started a fire for fun, was blamed for starting something that destroyed vast amounts of property and killed people. I think they can be/have been considered criminally and/or civilly liable. If it's ok for people to just start fires without any particular authorization or restrictions, then it's not clear to me how you distinguish them legally if the consequences should be particularly bad. I just don't understand logically, how you can define arson or negligence without clear rules. It's clearly incorrect that California just doesn't care. After all after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018) PG&E was charged with 84 counts of manslaughter. Also, remember Sergio Martinez? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire