From: Tony Williams 

Dave Ings wrote:
> It's true even today where I work (an hour north of New York City). Many
> towns around here only have a volunteer fire department, a fact that blew me
> away upon my arrival here, given the number of multi-million dollar mansions
> that are relying on Uncle Joe to leave home and come to the rescue if a fire
> starts. The response times must be awful.
>
> On this topic a darkly amusing observation is the apparently non-trivial
> correlation between rural arsonists and volunteer firefighters. Something
> about wanting to be a hero I guess ..

There was a case last year in California where a volunteer firefighter was
convicted of lighting bush fires in order to heroically put them out.

--
Tony

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