Twenty-six-year-old Cory Martin 'was found where the fire started and told police he tried to kill a spider with a lighter and in the process started a fire,' the Utah County Sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.
WASHINGTON - A Utah man was detained this week after he started a wildfire when he tried to kill a spider using a lighter, the local sheriff's office said.
The US state has been in the grip of a severe drought -- along with much of the country's southwest -- as part of a two-decade phenomenon scientists say is being exacerbated by climate change.
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