Denver Fire Cause Update
Now the fire investigators say that her 2nd story, the burnt letter story, does not track with the physical evidence.
"Barton told investigators she was enforcing the fire ban in the Pike National Forest on June 8 when she started burning a letter from her estranged husband within a designated campfire ring. She said she then tried to put out the blaze. Prosecutors now believe Barton made up the story.
They say based on evidence gathered at the fire’s starting point, it appears the fire was deliberately set and staged to look like an escaped campfire.
Barton was also the first to report the fire."
-philw