Arsonist Firefighter

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In Poland we had once situation, Firefighter who institutionally starting fires

just to be able to demonstrate his firefighting "courage."

I read about him in newspaper

I wonder if there are similar freaks like in other countries?

In fact, the guy was not a real firefighter, he was a volunteer fire firefighter. In Poland we have a "State Fire Service" they are professional fire fighter, and are paid for their job,
Volunteer are serve only few days in months, and have other jobs

Happens relatively often in USA.

I dont know if happens 'often', but it definetly happens here in the USA.

Saw TV news show about a respected gray haired old veteran who was a master forensic arson expert.

FIremen, police, and fire experts would be stumped - but when he arrived on the scene-like magic he would immediately go to the spot and show them- "here is where it started- they used accelerant- here are the directions the fire spread...etc" to the awe of the assembled crowd of stumped pros.

Turned out- he knew the fires so well because he had been the one setting them all along.

I thinking such freaks, can only be in my country.

I wonder why they do it, it's sick

It's always the fireman on TV shows. Either the fireman or somebody who was traumatized by fire as a child, probably because they were in a fire started by an arsonist fireman.

Our fire fighters are completely volunteers, and they do lots of youth groups. In the country its pretty usual to go to the "youth fire departement" after the scouts. You get trained there, and help the grown up fire fighters with the machines, helping them in action and so on.

Normally when we have a series of fires that were done professional, so noone is harmed, its one of the young ones. So if they create a fire, then there will be an alarm, and if there is an alarm all firefighters, including youth, are gathering. So if a young one creates a fire, he knows that he can afterward show himself as someone important. So a firefighter is a hero, but only if he can fight a fire, so if there is no fire that allows him to show how heroic he is, he creates it himself. Its also something unusual and exciting, so specially at small villages, young ones sometimes think of creating an excitement for themself.

May sound weird, but normally its not so terrible, its more about storages for wood, or empty abandoned yarns and so on. So normally they care not to hurt someone. Also the youth trainers are very careful if a village suddenly has a great increase in the amount of fires, that are created on purpose on buildings that normally dont content people. So normally after 2-3 of such fires, the one responsible is found, because the people start to question themselfs who could be responsible.

Kinda like the young guy in the US who stuck up a bank, but was caught.

When they asked him why he did it he said that he desperately needed the money, and had exhausted all other means. The reason: he needed the tuition money for his dream of completing training at the police academy to become a law enforcement officer.

I once read a story about a "doctor" who poisoned own patients to be able to show how good doctor, he is, i watched this on Discovery Channel

What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?

That's disturbing.

Ever see the movie "Backdraft"?