The punishment for the 15 year old should be to come up with a creative way of community service. The 15 year old should do something to make up for the devastation to properties and to the vegetation. One way he could help is to help replant trees and other vegetation destroyed during the fire. He could also help by meeting with people affected by the fires and work out a plan to help undo some of the destruction to properties. Right now community service is what we really need.
If this punishment were to be taken then several problems would