Sounds just like a couple of inbred, red-necked, ridge-running hillbilly punks with no life. These simple-minded jerks thought they’d be heroes if they got to put out a real fire. Too bad they didn’t set themselved on fire.
The Rodeo-Chedasky fire in AZ that torched nearly 500,000 acres was set by a “volunteer” firefighter – From a news report:
No-Fire-No-Pay is a bad bad idea… Budget cuts and poor psychological screening of potential firefighters may also be a factor…couple that with out of work individuals who probably thought how bad could it be setting a vacant building on fire – no loss of life – a little pocket change – The incentives have to be changed…
The arsonist, who received a 10-year prison sentence in March 2004, was Leonard Gregg, a Cibecue resident who worked as a seasonal firefighter for the tribal fire department. He told investigators he had set two fires that morning (the first was quickly put out) in hopes of getting hired by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs for a quick-response fire crew. Gregg had previously worked as a BIA fire crew member, and was indeed among the first to be called in to fight the Rodeo Fire
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Sounds just like a couple of inbred, red-necked, ridge-running hillbilly punks with no life. These simple-minded jerks thought they’d be heroes if they got to put out a real fire. Too bad they didn’t set themselved on fire.
Several volunteer fire fighters at various times in various states have been caught setting fires.
Those volunteers tended to be of the type that are paid form each fire they respond to.
No fire, no pay.
There was even a TV “news magazine” story devoted to this activity a few years back.
Sure, redeckedness can be blamed for some of these events but greed and mental illness is also responsible for some.
The Rodeo-Chedasky fire in AZ that torched nearly 500,000 acres was set by a “volunteer” firefighter – From a news report:
No-Fire-No-Pay is a bad bad idea… Budget cuts and poor psychological screening of potential firefighters may also be a factor…couple that with out of work individuals who probably thought how bad could it be setting a vacant building on fire – no loss of life – a little pocket change – The incentives have to be changed…
The arsonist, who received a 10-year prison sentence in March 2004, was Leonard Gregg, a Cibecue resident who worked as a seasonal firefighter for the tribal fire department. He told investigators he had set two fires that morning (the first was quickly put out) in hopes of getting hired by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs for a quick-response fire crew. Gregg had previously worked as a BIA fire crew member, and was indeed among the first to be called in to fight the Rodeo Fire