Spanish firefighter jailed after starting a fire to 'satisfy his ego'

Volunteer firefighter Luis Trueba found guilty of using petrol to start forest fire in Cantabria in 2019 A volunteer firefighter who sought to "satisfy his ego" by using petrol to start a blaze that devoured 144 hectares of forest and scrubland in northern Spain has been given a three-and-a-half-year jail term and ordered to pay more than €158,000 in damages. Luis Trueba, the former head of the Civil Protection volunteer service in Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, had denied deliberately set...