Word: arsonists
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Again, Carter threw her energies into the office. That's where she was a few months later when her marketing director relayed an emergency phone message: "Betsy, your house burned down!" Her weekend home in upstate New York was a total loss in a fire begun by an arsonist. Writes Carter: "Putting one foot in front of the other: I was getting very good at that. Understanding the pattern and meaning of what happened over the past couple of years was harder. I'd lost my teeth, my ability to bear children [because of an earlier hysterectomy], my husband...
...Triggers can be as natural as a lightning strike, as innocent as a campfire or as sinister as an arsonist...
TRUE CRIME Even firefighters can be bad guys. Joseph Wambaugh's antihero is a respected California fire captain who becomes a prolific arsonist...
...Cabe and others have found that the typical fireman arsonist is a white male between 17 and 26, generally with a spotty work record and an unstable home life. The wobbly ego and need for attention that can accompany such a background may make the heroism of the fire department irresistible. For some, simply joining the volunteer corps and waiting for a blaze is not enough. The temptation is to light the fire and then bask in the recognition that comes from being the first to sound the alarm. "There's a need to be the hero," says George Miller...
...this air, crackling with arsonist summer lightning, that is burning up huge patches of forest in the American West. It is the worst fire season in 50 years, or maybe 65. Almost 4 million acres are on fire in California, Idaho, Montana, Utah and other states, and even with so many firefighters working them, the fires will not be extinguished until the fall, when rain and snow will...