State Wide Burn Ban in Wa

As a bit of an aside. I stay in my RV with a friend in the Okanogan Valley in E WA where a range fire burned property all around him. He is a former fire commissioner in the area, and I asked him who was responsible for putting out that fire. I understood from what he said that the DNR? put out the fire which included air drops. I asked him who paid for it, as the fire was started by the adjacent owner's construction activity on his property. He said the the individual owner was not responsible, unless the fire jumped unto another property, which it did not. So we all paid for it.

I think that intent is to have an owner call for help as soon as possible without regard to cost.

I'd be glad to have anyone clarify my understanding of this.