Trial is scheduled Tuesday for a teenage girl accused of sparking a San Marcos-area wildfire last May that blackened nearly 2,000 acres and destroyed 36 homes.
Superior Court Judge Howard Shore is set to preside over the trial. There are no juries in juvenile proceedings.
The teenager — who was 13 at the time — is charged with setting two fires, including the Cocos Fire in San Marcos last May 14.
If convicted of five charges, she faces more than 13 years in custody, said Deputy District Attorney Shawnalyse Ochoa. Trial is expected to last two weeks.
The Cocos fire was one of more than a dozen brushfires that erupted in hot, dry and windy conditions last spring. Officials set the cost of extinguishing the fires at nearly $28 million.
—City News Service
