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by quickthrower2 1379 days ago
Not pyromaniacs necessarily but definitely “firestarter for hire”. Also a fire department that can scale and is paid privately. More fires mean more business.
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More fires mean more business, but that’s kinda irrellevant to the goal of the fire department, which is to prevent burned out houses.

If the police never does anything about the firestarters for hire, it’s a bit hard to see how that would be the fire departments fault (and certaily not something they should solve by not fighting fires any more).