[Catspaw]

Well, I asked my kid, the firefighter and former fire chief, about someone "accidentally" starting a fire to draw attention to himself so he could be a "hero." She says in her biz, a person of that proclivity is called "an arsonist," or in more common parlance, "a fire bug."

[general_re]

She says in her biz, a person of that proclivity is called "an arsonist," or in more common parlance, "a fire bug."

Ahem. And in these parts, accidentally killing someone while doing such a thing would be called "criminally negligent homicide".