Isn't there a disproportionally high percentage of firebugs in fire departments?
No more than there is a disproportionately high rate of wife beaters in the police Department.
I don't think there is but you sure hear about the ones that are found out. A gal who worked for the Forest Service (I think) here in Colorado torched a love letter during our drought so she could "heroically" put out the fire and receive recognition (thus thumbing her nose at her ex, I guess). Needless to say, a 137,000+ acres went up in smoke.
The Forest Service connection was all people talked about for months. It's like it wouldn't have been such a hideous crime if she's been an accountant or something.
like, perhaps, thugs who become cops, pedophiles who become clergymen; are you suggesting a pattern?
arsonist and fireman can be two sides of a very thin coin....
As a firefighter friend of my says, "Why do you think they call it the Fire Department?"