If found guilty as charged they can split the $10 million five ways and that will make it easier to pay off $2 million each during their working years.

Oh, I forgot about the interest which will have to be added annually!

Perhaps it would be better to serve a long jail term and be debt free after 10 or 15 years without parole?

I wonder if this was intentional or accidental? It seems to me that 5 people would not collude to burn the block down without at least one of them having something to say about it. More likely a small fire was started that got out of control.

Time Will Tell

Yeah, purely accidental...they just wanted to burn the building under construction a tiny little bit...then, it turned into a bigger fire, like really big?

Give me a break! Why were they there in the first place, trespassing and lighting fires?

Isn't that called arson?

Already excuses are being made...poor innocent children...14, 16, 17 years old...and still playing with matches!

Yikes!!!

I see both points but accident or not there must be consequences for their role in the outcome.