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Oyler trial testimony focuses on suspect's stint as volunteer firefighter trainee -

Published on Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY


Raymond Lee Oyler spent at least three months as a volunteer firefighter trainee in the San Gorgonio Pass in 2000, jurors in his arson and murder trial heard during testimony Tuesday.

Oyler also was identified from the witness stand as the man who made brief contact in the summer of 2006 with a Cal Fire battalion chief who would become the incident commander for the Esperanza Fire that Oyler is charged with setting.

Oyler is on trial, accused of setting the Oct. 26, 2006, Esperanza Fire that burned from Cabazon up the San Jacinto Mountains and swept over five U.S. Forest Service firefighters as they defended a home in the community of Twin Pines.

Oyler is charged with murder for their deaths, and with setting 22 other fires from May through October in the Pass area. Many of the fires were set with different configurations of matchstick-and-cigarette devices.

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