10-19-2012, 02:11 PM
(10-18-2012, 08:31 PM)shoju Wrote: 40 Suspicious Fires now since June 13th.
Seems like a pretty typical pyromaniac case. Happens everywhere now and then.
Firemen are often the culprit (just as pedophiles are attracted to becoming a priest, pyromaniacs are attracted to becoming firemen).
Also look for bystanders (so whenever there is a fire start filming everyone who is in the vicinity and later check all the footage and look if you see same faces (pyromaniacs ALWAYS watch their fire).
Most of the time they are (a part from their mania) pretty normal, and indeed that is why they usually choose abandoned places.....because they indeed don't want to make victims. But you are correct that when things escalate things might get more dangerous.
In Holland we just had a case like this solved.....also 10s of fires of a longer period in one town. They finally got the guy. He had himself called in two of the fires, was always watching, and registered for voluntarry firefighting work.
Of course it can always be something completely different but 9 out of 10 cases it turns out like this.