Defense attorneys allege that government officials, such as police officers, firefighters and child service workers, are at least partly responsible for the blaze because they all toured the warehouse before the fire and failed to report it for dangerous conditions.
Wolf parents Siskiyou and Sequoia were brought to the zoo in 2018 to live in the California Trail exhibit, a 22-acre habitat for species native to California.
Witness says she overheard men "laughing and congratulating themselves" for setting the fire." The defense alleges the fire was an act of arson the defendants couldn't have prevented.
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