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Since the vacant houses frequently serve as the base of operations for drug dealers, arson might be a way to reduce the competition "if one particular house is doing better than another," Burton says. If the drugs are bad, then buyers might set fire to the place of purchase to "teach [the dealers] a lesson," he says. Or, the arsonists might be young people setting fires "for kicks," he says...
...chain reaction" may have been set off, Burton says, once the town started getting publicity for its rash of arson cases. "Some of the street gangs are talking, and other street gangs say, we can do a better one," Burton says...
...With extra help, we're going to put a damper on it," Burton says...
...fire department has arranged arson statistics from the past year into a graph which shows that an overwhelming 131 cases of arson have occured since January. Twenty-two were reported in September alone, says Lieutenant John P. Burton of the Arson Squad...
...stopped counting in May, myself," says Burton...