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The Arsonist Was a Firefighter?!

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0:00 [Music] okay um anesthesiologist so we've been having a lot of fires lately huh yeah here for the fires hey I'm glad they're back California's been burden a lot yeah in the last year we've lost over a million acres of land due to fires right I thought we were going to go through one summer without a fire and then it was I just thought too early I feel like every possible every year we get one right at least one it wasn't until September that we hit like a big one that's a good streak that's but that's cuz usually it happens like between July but we us get like 4 or five in the middle of the he what did you say you said5 my favorite Highway holy the the the the key word was that he said five fires because five of these major fires

0:51 they were able to discover who set them homeless people wait was it the guy the 35-year-old dude was it did he do all of them or they're all separate guys five of these fires have been determined to be started by a firefighter no way ████ way what a Twist like I I got I got to be a hero so I'm going to create a situation need some work defund the firefighters defund the firefighters defund the firefighters Robert Hernandez is his name he was arrested for starting these fires while off duty it doesn't say how they caught him or why he did it but I know why in looking this up I found a really interesting statistic what is it there's a lot of arson % of fires are made by

1:41 firefighters that would be crazy dude then that means don't they say like a lot of a lot of fires that a lot of fires that get started and get out of control are made by like the fire stars that a ████ fire dude big fire don't they actually like they have they they have to burn some of the yeah evidence they could do control burns control burns control burn they try to do no it says that 95% of drownings are from lifeguards no um it says get held down in this in this 2016 report it it shows that 100 firefighters each year in the US are arrested for starting fires I think they get bored you think they get cocky I can take this out here's the top three reasons why they did it firefighters hate these guys yeah number one is wanting to be a hero for putting out your own fire so they literally started somebody's like hey I'm a

2:32 firefighter someone like prove it yeah I guess so babe you're going to want to see this they start their own fire knowing that they have all the information about where it is and how to get there and they just ████ what if they ████ up so hard and they actually burn a whole town down it's happened yeah that's probably what happened here number two is is uh not having enough action that's what I hear dude they need they need the hours ████ action yeah but but imagine when you're like a firefighter and you're like dude I really want to like fight fires and then 90% you're just being like called to some senior home because somebody and that's true though you might you might like lose a set firefighters get there before the ambulance and all the crazy situations and can you imagine being a like having to fomo when other departments are doing it and then they get like medals and ████ and you're just sitting there like ████ if only it was a couple miles over here it would be my jurisdiction or if they cut funding to

3:23 your department cuz you haven't done anything lately um number three the most uh I don't know why it's the third one it sounds like it's part of one and two psychological disorders so they go into the department they they've been ████ up they're just cuckoo oh mhm yeah well I guess if you like fire that much you might be a pyromaniac too right you you like fire enough to be a firefighter yeah you know that's pretty cool pyro Fighters yeah way cooler name it is actually well cuz some firefighters they control fire by creating fire like you know like that all like they do that to yeah controlled fires yeah control fires that's what they burn so that it doesn't go past that point yeah and then sometimes it goes out of control and they're like oh man dude if here's my chance to be hero like that women fire department that did that oh yeah that

4:13 story no they weren't women dude they they were they weren't women they were women do you remember that I do remember that there was like a a female fire department um like a female firefighters kind of like meeting or something and then they did a controlled burn and it went out of control so they had to call the fire department it sounds like a sketch dude no ████ way oh my God that's like a slapstick movie is and then in the video it looks so funny because they're all like yeah this is to promote women in Fire and and then and then the next clip in the video is just ████ massive fire and they're all like oh ████ and the guys are like can you give me the directions to the place and none of the chicks could like you don't know how to get know how to get that we're by this tree uh there's a no no no not the big tree the smaller tree there bathroom are you guys North or South I don't even know what that means just get here quick

5:05 just follow the smoke yeah that was a that was a really sad one I feel like we put that one on patreon I think cuz it was so too accurate these bits were coming out it's too accurate we didn't even all we did all we did all I did is read the cold hard facts it was so scathing like this is rough yeah but um hey I mean what's worse a guy starting his own fire on purpose or women doing it on accident there was a crazy stat that this one guy told me a long time ago that I don't remember if it's accurate or not but he was saying that American firefighters have a really high like death rate just because of that hero complex compared to like other firefighters so they want to run in oh they watch Backdraft too many times Backdraft is Fu Backdraft complex I mean I guess that's a good thing right like if they're down to put their life on the line and go save someone that's kind of a good thing but it's also

5:55 against better judgment when you they maybe don't have to do that but you got to follow protocol there's a safer way to like like let's get the bed sheet out and have them jump out the window they're like no I'm going up there we got water dude like I don't need this mask throws it off runs up plus there's that whole mentality that like you can't save somebody if you can't save yourself and then the second you put yourself in danger now the firefighter just have to save two people yeah that's what they right that's like when Mike's dad was missing right like the the feeling of like everyone wants to help but it's likeo cool your jets guys we got to go look for your ass yeah yeah yeah that's true or now there's like hella Footprints so like who are we following walking in circles and ████ you said four out of five of the LA fires was when from a fire five of the fires yeah

6:45 so that means one of so that means all of them's arson cuz they caught one guy a 35-year-old dude doing arson for one of the fires just a guy yeah just some dude so that means all of them are arson all of them yeah oh no I mean five of the major fires this year were from that firefighter but there's way more than five I don't know there's been like remember that one year during the pandemic when it was a massive one it was caused by a baby reveal gender reveal part yeah that would burning forever but how funny would it be if all the smoke was pink that yeah it's actually kind of nice little baby girl wow A Bouncing baby girl I guess we're going to name her fire pyra baby girl pyra pyra dude yeah that's ridiculous

7:35 man plus it's like when you looked at where they did it it was like this looks like you meant to burn the world down it was like the one of the hottest days too out of the summer man and there was the one that almost burnt down the Getty Center was started by like a homeless guy cooking with a pot or some ████ oh the one off the 405 you could see it at night it was like growing crazy everyone was like saying their goodbyes to the Getty Center and ████ I'd like the Getty Center Getty Center is coool especially when it's on fire a rough way to go man she's been there so long there's so much old art there at the Getty Center really have you guys been to the Getty Villa that might catch from outside that one's really nice cuz you see the ocean if we had to have let's say let's say that the ████ god of fire makes a deal with us and goes guys I have to burn 100 acres just tell me where you want it burned

8:26 but you got to have 100 burn where ja new's house oh house it's got to be California Where Oh California Baro Baro don't need that ████ we like the outlets we do but you don't need bar 100 acres lose 100 acres of bar I know this desert already right Death Valley Bakersfield oh yeah Death Valley doesn't hell of people living there he said Death Valley all right de Valley or Bakersfield any of those weird cities yeah Fresno H Sal sea just ████ burn salt and sea yeah salt and sea p e r r i s oh wow in Riverside County yeah it's kind of farther out but that's but it's very green isn't it oh yeah ████ me Yuka UK when they try to put out fires with the plane and the

9:16 belly opens up that's pretty cool yeah that's pretty cool when the fire is so big and then the water gets dropped it looks like nothing and you're just like what it drops have you ever seen that thing where they uh the helicopter will dip a bag into someone's pool to like grab water I'd be pissed yeah and then they always pick up the kids too yeah you saw that lawyer video there's this lawyer video where he like tells you that if that happens to you the city has to pay you for the water yes oh that's nice they should for why how much is it I don't know but at the end he went that makes them liable yeah yeah yeah that gu it seems like the helicopter like they should just fill up the water before doing that cuz imagine you're the ████ pilot and you have to go and like land this giant apparatus in the pool perfectly that seems like it's really hard it's like because they have to keep doing multiple trips oh I see or the

10:08 pilot look at that pool is right next to it it's the convenience and the efficiency of time but the pilot is starting the fire cuz he's bored and he needs to be the hero damn dude imagine there multiple layers to it whoa if we had less firefighter setting fires off that would probably be a good the EMT is ████ starting the fire so they can go save the grandma yes they got get some hours everybody has a reason to start a fire that's true that's like Dr Fouch starting Co huh like we're kind of bored aren't we we got to sell these masks we're bored I'm I have psychological disorders

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