Arsonist Arrested at Last
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381837)
Rockingham, Australia
February 21, 2016 7:29am CST
The news here today is that a local SES (State Emergency Service) and fire fighter volunteer has been arrested and charged with deliberately lighting fires on our area in south-west Western Australia.
Back around Christmas time there were two major fires in our area. One was too close for comfort and I wrote about it here: http://new.mylot.com/post/2877239/the-photo-albums-are-by-the-door.
So today a 23-year-old man has been arrested and charged. Arsonists cause so much damage and heartache. It is hard to feel sorry for him but I feel for his family, especially if he is married with young children. His folks will be devastated and I can't imagine what his friends are thinking. But until the next time we can rest easy for a while.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
21 Feb 16
Pyromaniacs go into firefighting for the same reason pedophiles work with children.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
21 Feb 16
@Marty1 It's an addiction like all the rest. They really cannot help it. This should have been discovered when he took the test to become a firefighter.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
21 Feb 16
It is a good thing he is caught, fires are so scary.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
22 Feb 16
@JudyEv Fires scare me...There was a field fire across the road from us a fwe years ago and it went up so fast and the wind was blowing this direction. The vol. fire dep.t isn't that fast around here but they did finally get it out.
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill It is unbelievable how fast a fire can travel. It also seems to generate its own power and speed too.
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
21 Feb 16
bizarre that a fireman would start fires - glad he has been caught
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
22 Feb 16
@JudyEv pretty scary thought
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Feb 16
@arthurchappell Exactly. I wonder how his fire-fighting mates feel?
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
21 Feb 16
He was a volunteer huh?
That is very strange, but I am glad they caught him.
Arson is a terrible sickness.
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@garymarsh6 (23978)
• United Kingdom
23 Feb 16
It seems that often these fires can be started by reserve firemen. I hope that they throw the book at him for endangering lives. There are some terrible fires in Australia and I believe in America too!
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Feb 16
We live in an area called Argyle. There are volunteer brigades about every ten kms or so I guess - Donnybrook, Argyle, Lowden, Mumballup, etc. The arsonist was from our Argyle group and only got married in January so it's all very sad. Certainly the fires he lit could have been much more catastrophic than they were we we were lucky in that respect. He is bound to go to jail.
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
21 Feb 16
I wonder is psychiatrists know why people do this sort of thing. What in their childhood turned them into pyromaniacs?
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
21 Feb 16
I just don't get it. What is the reason he sets fires. Very glad he has been caught.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
22 Feb 16
@JudyEv Yea has to be something wrong mentally. Total crazyness
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
22 Feb 16
It is hard to feel sorry for someone doing the damage done. The family must be really upset about this.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
22 Feb 16
I'm glad he has been caught... as that means he can not do it again... but like you I do 'feel' for him and his family... what would drive a young man like that... to do such a thing... so sad.....
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Feb 16
It is so, so sad. The news tonight is that he is out on $10,000 bail.
@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
22 Feb 16
I think his colleagues who are fire fighters themselves would be feeling even worse and betrayed. Since they fight so bravely to protect lives from such fires.
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