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There have been several out this way just like that. USeally in teh end though they catch the guy and he goes to jail.

Sadly 9 times out of 10 they are a member or former member of a fire department and that is the first thing the media always points out.

Even if he hasn't been a member for 10 years.

 

 

 

 

I was a volunteer for 6 years in the 90's. we had a guy(probie) that used to run into the firehouse all nervous and sweaty, he'd stand around for a few minutes and all of a sudden there was a fire. he eventually got caught and obviously was suspected by us before he did. thankfully nobody was hurt.

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A suspect was just arrested.

 

 

 

 

Figured it wouldn't be long, they had him on video leaving a few places that went up in flames... Again glad nobody was hurt.

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I prosecuted a couple of arson cases. One guy -- Young... 18 - -19 yrs old. He poured a large can of gas through the basement window. Family was on vacation. His ex girlfriend lived there with her parents. He kicked in the window, poured the gas, lite a book of matches and BOOM! It actually damaged the foundation. His eyebrows and lashs and some hair were all burned! His face and hands were burned... Not badly. He was blown backwards. The neighbor found him deaf and dazed!

 

The arson expert report is always key! Whether there is evidence of a pour / burn pattern? ( innocent explanation for it?). Example: is the presence of that chemical due to an accelerant OR was that chemical present from the manufacturing process? Does the chemical mimic or can it be confused for gas or another common excelerant? Pour / burn patterns ---- was it from gas or was there evidence of moister in the concrete?

 

There was a sick arsonist in Mercer County, NJ. He used to be a law enforcement officer. After he was fired, he started an Insurance Adjustors business ---- specialized in fires! He was burning structures and getting paid to investigate them! Caught. Prosecuted. Deceased.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

John Leonard Orr

 

 

John Leonard Orr (born April 26, 1949) is a former fire captain and arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California and novelist who was indicted and later convicted for serial arson. Orr had originally wanted to be a police officer, but had failed his entrance exam; instead he became a dedicated fire investigator and career fire officer. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Los Angeles was plagued by a series of fires that cost millions of dollars in damages and claimed four lives. John Orr was found to be the cause of most of those fires.[1] During his arson spree, Orr was given the nickname the Pillow Pyro by arson investigators.[2]

 

His modus operandi was to set fires using an incendiary timing-device, usually comprising a lit cigarette, three matches wrapped in ruled yellow writing paper and secured by a rubber band, in stores while they were open and populated. He would set small fires often in the grassy hills, in order to draw firefighters, leaving fires set in more congested areas unattended.

 

 

 

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I prosecuted a couple of arson cases. One guy -- Young... 18 - -19 yrs old. He poured a large can of gas through the basement window. Family was on vacation. His ex girlfriend lived there with her parents. He kicked in the window, poured the gas, lite a book of matches and BOOM! It actually damaged the foundation. His eyebrows and lashs and some hair were all burned! His face and hands were burned... Not badly. He was blown backwards. The neighbor found him deaf and dazed!

The arson expert report is always key! Whether there is evidence of a pour / burn pattern? ( innocent explanation for it?). Example: is the presence of that chemical due to an accelerant OR was that chemical present from the manufacturing process? Does the chemical mimic or can it be confused for gas or another common excelerant? Pour / burn patterns ---- was it from gas or was there evidence of moister in the concrete?

There was a sick arsonist in Mercer County, NJ. He used to be a law enforcement officer. After he was fired, he started an Insurance Adjustors business ---- specialized in fires! He was burning structures and getting paid to investigate them! Caught. Prosecuted. Deceased.

 

Don't know how the laws are were you are but here they show no mercy and throw the book at you. Defiantly not worth it. Think the last kid that got caught set 7 fires and had over 90 charges brought against him.

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I prosecuted a couple of arson cases. One guy -- Young... 18 - -19 yrs old. He poured a large can of gas through the basement window. Family was on vacation. His ex girlfriend lived there with her parents. He kicked in the window, poured the gas, lite a book of matches and BOOM! It actually damaged the foundation. His eyebrows and lashs and some hair were all burned! His face and hands were burned... Not badly. He was blown backwards. The neighbor found him deaf and dazed!

The arson expert report is always key! Whether there is evidence of a pour / burn pattern? ( innocent explanation for it?). Example: is the presence of that chemical due to an accelerant OR was that chemical present from the manufacturing process? Does the chemical mimic or can it be confused for gas or another common excelerant? Pour / burn patterns ---- was it from gas or was there evidence of moister in the concrete?

There was a sick arsonist in Mercer County, NJ. He used to be a law enforcement officer. After he was fired, he started an Insurance Adjustors business ---- specialized in fires! He was burning structures and getting paid to investigate them! Caught. Prosecuted. Deceased.

 

Don't know how the laws are were you are but here they show no mercy and throw the book at you. Defiantly not worth it. Think the last kid that got caught set 7 fires and had over 90 charges brought against him.

 

Arson is the real thing---- 10 to 20 years as a 1st degree offense.

 

I have a friend who has a Phd -- psychiatry --- she specializes in treating firebugs ... Adolescents who like to like to burn things. Many sad & F-Up kids circulating amongst us! :(. Little firebugs grow bold and can become big killers. )

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As opposed to Pennsylvania...:confused: Landlocked, tiny mountains, second tier cities......ya got nothing. I will take Los Angeles, thank you.

 

Actually Philly was just named the largest city out of all the citys in the US.

 

So LA can keep thier second tier city

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