I tend to agree,but I also disagree. Odd as that sounds (which it does), the fire service (for those not familiar with it) is a unique calling, a calling for which one also has to prove themselves as well. In the emergency services of FD,PD and EMS, you only become good at your craft at someone else's expense. There are those like you mentioned who get their rocks off with fire, but there are those who are probably in small depts who not only want to get fire, they also want to show their peers they are competent firemen. So we end up reading about these degenerates of the fire service, and sometimes with tragic results. Many young kids in their zealousness, would sit around the firehouse climbing up the walls wanting a 'job'. Then explaining to them that someone, possibly their neighbor, classmate, or family would have to lose everything they have worked their whole life for to keep a bunch of yahoos happy. Needless to say, most never looked at it that way. And the ones that didn't care you read about getting charged with arson, and sometimes murder. Shame. But this is not also 100% correct. Back in the early 80's, many Boston firemen,some with many years in, were busted in an insurance scam. Lost jobs, jail time, and justice served. But you will always have your pyromaniacs, and some end up in both the career and volunteer fire service. What goes through the human mind will never be figured out in our lifetimes.