(A) Each owner and occupant of unprotected wildland on which a fire exists or from or across which a fire has spread, notwithstanding the origin or subsequent spread thereof, will immediately proceed to control and extinguish such fire when its existence comes to the knowledge of the owner or operator, without awaiting instructions from the Forester, and will continue to control and extinguish same until the fire is extinguished or until relieved of such obligation by the Forester.

(B) If the Forester determines the fire is either burning uncontrolled or the owner or occupant does not then have readily and immediately available personnel and equipment to control or extinguish the fire, the Forester, or any forest protective association or agency under contract or agreement with the County for the protection of unprotected wildland against fire, and within whose protection area the fire exists, will summarily abate the nuisance thus constituted by controlling and extinguishing the fire.

(C) An owner may request in writing that the Forester employ alternate fire prevention and suppression strategies or techniques on the owner's property. The Forester may employ some or all of the requested strategies or techniques when, in the judgment of the Forester, conditions warrant the use of the alternate strategies or techniques.

(D) The cost of work under paragraph (B) and the expense of any patrol rendered necessary by the want of adequate protection of such wildland will be recoverable from the owner by an action prosecuted in the name of the County.