A Boulder County woman has been charged in connection with sparking a wildfire. Helena Syrovatkova faces a petty offense of firing woods or prairie for criminal negligence in sparking the 10-acre Tally Ho Trail Fire in April. Investigators said she lit a fire in a metal firepit in her backyard and spread the ashes in a garden bed along a fence line to use as fertilizer. Those ashes then somehow ignited causing $20,000 in damage to nearby yards and fences as well as grasslands in the Twin Lakes area. No fire restrictions were in place at the time the fire was sparked.
