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Man arrested in Gann fire says he was trying to make money for a birthday dinner
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Flames consume vegetation as the Gann fire burns near Copperopolis in Calaveras County.
The Gann fire is roughly 35 miles east of Stockton and entirely within Calaveras County.
“I’m so sorry for everything that’s happened,” Smith told Sacramento NBC affiliate KCRA on Thursday afternoon .
I was just out there trying to get some money together, and it turned into this.”
Smith told the station that Monday was his birthday and he was cutting scraps that day when the fire ignited, trying to earn a few dollars so he could take his wife out to dinner.