What are kids doing with gasoline?? I just read the news article that another person linked to - and there is very little info except a police chief saying no one was coerced to be in the shed. How does he know? The kid is comatose!
Even if it turns out to be a prank, I don’t get modern kids who carry around gasoline.
They’re boys, fire seems fun and exciting, no thought of the danger. Everybody has a gas can in suburbia, for the lawnmower.
It sounds as if they were, as a group, burning down a shed, perhaps simply for the amusement value.