Your scenarios are by far the most likely, but I can’t help but think of the IRA’s old tactic of calling in multiple simultaneous threats or starting simultaneous incidents to test authority response times and evaluate their capabilities and methods.
“I can’t help but think of the IRA’s old tactic of calling in multiple simultaneous threats or starting simultaneous incidents to test authority response times and evaluate their capabilities and methods.”
If the fires are some distance apart it would be difficult for one person to start all of them in one night, so there are a lot of questions left unanswered for now. And it was Commie Day, right?