Chapter 55 - The Reckoning
The aftermath of the fire was not just a cleanup effort; it was a ruthless legal execution.
Mateo did not just repair the fences. He utilized his education and his fierce, unyielding drive for justice.
He compiled massive, irrefutable documentation of Ironwood Logging’s willful negligence, the ignored safety mandates, and the catastrophic damage caused to the public infrastructure.
He handed the dossier directly to the State Attorney General.
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A week later, the executives of the timber syndicate were federally indicted for gross criminal negligence and reckless endangerment. Their company was completely dismantled, and the state seized the burned mountain, transferring the conservation rights directly to the local agricultural cooperative.
The threat was permanently, legally erased.
