425 ILCS 40/12

No owner or lessee of land upon which fire may burn or be started, nor any person during employment with such owner or lessee, shall be compensated under this Act for extinguishing fire upon his land or the land to which his interest is attached. No person who is responsible for the spreading of a fire to a woodland, forest or other land, nor any person in his employ may receive compensation under this Act for helping to extinguish such fires.