PEOPLE v. THE SUPERIOR COURT
Affirmative defenses of comparative fault and failure to mitigate damages are unavailable in an action by a public entity to recover firefighting costs from landowner negligently setting fire or allowing fire to spread to adjoining properties where application of such defense would reduce plaintiff's recovery based on a judge or jury's finding that plaintiff used unreasonable or inefficient methods to fight the fire contrary to law of sovereign immunity.
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