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...families, claiming the hasty cleanup is part of a broader attempt to cover up fatally flawed safety procedures, won an injunction to stop official tampering with the site and are demanding that the mayor of Taegu resign. So far police have arrested seven people, including the alleged arsonist, the train conductor and five other subway staff. The Korean government has also set up a special task force to probe the disaster, pledging to "win the trust" of victims' families...
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...