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Posted on 05/15/2008 8:04:52 AM PDT by Sax
Arsonists like to pick on Brevard County more than almost any area of Florida.
So far this decade, the county ranks second statewide in the amount of brush land and woods intentionally set ablaze by firebugs, state records show.
Police suspect that at least one arsonist ignited the south Brevard blazes this week. Authorities were questioning a Palm Bay man Wednesday but did not charge him. They warned that others could have started fires.
"It's not uncommon for them to be a firefighter or a police officer," he said.
One such case was Henry Schook III, 30, a Brevard County deputy sheriff arrested in April 2005 on charges of setting two brush fires and burning an abandoned car while on patrol.
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